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Administering HCL VersionVault
Learn about performing administrative tasks for an HCL VersionVault community including managing software licenses, user and group accounts, VersionVault server and client hosts, shared data, and the network that connects them.
Moving VOBs and relocating VOB data
HCL VersionVault includes tools for moving data and metadata to another VOB and for moving entire VOBs to another disk or host. You may need to use these tools to reorganize VOB directories, redistribute data storage, or rebalance server loads.
Moving VOBs
You cannot use an ordinary file-system copy utility to copy a VOB to another location. You must follow special procedures that maintain the integrity of VOB data and preserve permissions and ownership on VOB storage directories.
Moving a VOB to a different operating system type
When you move a VOB from a Windows® host to a host running Linux or the UNIX system or vice versa, all user identity information stored in the VOB storage directory and VOB database must change. The binary data format of the VOB database must change also.
Moving an ACL-protected VOB between Linux or the UNIX system and Windows
The procedure for moving a VOB with ACLs enabled is the same as the procedure for moving a VOB to a different operating system, however, there are some special requirements.

Administering
Learn how to administer the product.
- Administering HCL VersionVault
  Learn about performing administrative tasks for an HCL VersionVault community including managing software licenses, user and group accounts, VersionVault server and client hosts, shared data, and the network that connects them.
  - HCL VersionVault network planning and administration
  - License servers and license administration
    Most HCL VersionVault applications and commands (cleartool commands, for example, or GUIs such as the VersionVault Explorer) require a license to run.
  - Reconfiguring VersionVault to use a different JRE
    When you change the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for HCL VersionVault, you must reconfigure the product to make it work with the new JRE.
  - Administering the HCL VersionVault registry
    The HCL VersionVault registry is a central repository of information about shared resources such as VOBs and views.
  - HCL VersionVault network administration in mixed environments
    An HCL VersionVault environment that includes hosts that run Windows and hosts that run the UNIX system or Linux is said to be a mixed environment.
  - Overview of security considerations
    As an administrator, you are responsible for the security of your HCL VersionVault deployment.
  - VOB and view access control
    HCL VersionVault supports a rich set of access controls on versioned objects.
  - VOB administration
    Because VOBs are the principal repository for artifacts under HCL VersionVault control, VOB administration is one of the HCL VersionVault administrator’s most important tasks.
  - VOB datatypes and administrative VOB hierarchies
    There are many types of VOB metadata. Some are unique to a particular VOB, but many must be managed consistently across a group of VOBs that store related artifacts (components of a UCM project, for example). These topics introduce VOB metadata and describe how to use administrative VOB hierarchies to simplify sharing of type objects among related VOBs.
  - Moving VOBs and relocating VOB data
    HCL VersionVault includes tools for moving data and metadata to another VOB and for moving entire VOBs to another disk or host. You may need to use these tools to reorganize VOB directories, redistribute data storage, or rebalance server loads.
    - Relocating elements to another VOB
      The cleartool relocate command moves elements to another VOB.
    - Moving VOBs
      You cannot use an ordinary file-system copy utility to copy a VOB to another location. You must follow special procedures that maintain the integrity of VOB data and preserve permissions and ownership on VOB storage directories.
      - Special procedures for replicated VOBs
        If you are moving a VOB replica to a new host, take the following steps first.
      - Moving a VOB on Windows®
        There are two primary use cases for moving a VOB on Windows®: moving a VOB to a host in the same Windows domain (or to a different partition on a Windows host), and moving a VOB to a host in another Windows domain.
      - Moving a VOB on Linux or the UNIX system
        There are two primary use cases for moving a VOB on Linux or the UNIX system: moving a VOB to a host that has the same architecture (binary data format) and moving a VOB to a host that has a different architecture.
      - Moving a VOB to a different operating system type
        When you move a VOB from a Windows® host to a host running Linux or the UNIX system or vice versa, all user identity information stored in the VOB storage directory and VOB database must change. The binary data format of the VOB database must change also.
        Moving a VOB from Windows® to Linux or the UNIX system
        Moving a VOB from Linux or the UNIX system to Windows®
        Moving an ACL-protected VOB between Linux or the UNIX system and Windows
        The procedure for moving a VOB with ACLs enabled is the same as the procedure for moving a VOB to a different operating system, however, there are some special requirements.
      - Moving a VOB to network-attached storage
        All procedures for moving VOBs refer to the architecture, or binary data format, of the VOB host. VOB database formats are architecture-dependent, and the database must be reformatted if the VOB is moved to a host of a different architecture.
  - Views and view administration
    A view provides a workspace where users access versions of file and directory elements that are under HCL VersionVault control. Views can also contain view-private file system objects (such as ordinary files and directories) that are not under HCL VersionVault control.
  - Backing up critical HCL VersionVault data
    Like all databases, VOBs, views, and the HCL VersionVault registry have special backup and restore requirements.
  - Restoring critical HCL VersionVault data
    If you have implemented a sound backup strategy for HCL VersionVault data, it should be easy to restore that data, if necessary.
  - Periodic maintenance
    Periodic attention to storage management and repository integrity is an important administrative function. These topics describe VOB and view storage management tasks, the checkvob utility, and the HCL VersionVault scheduler, which you can use to automate many periodic maintenance chores.
  - Importing data
    HCL VersionVault includes several utilities for importing data from other configuration management systems or directly from the file system itself.
  - Troubleshooting
    These topics cover a variety of procedures that administrators might need to follow to find and fix problems.
  - Improving client host performance
  - Improving VOB host performance
  - Configuring cross-platform file-system access
  - HCL VersionVault and Windows® domains
  - Configuring non-VersionVault access on Linux® or the UNIX system
    You can configure an HCL VersionVault host running Linux® or the UNIX system to support access to VOBs and dynamic views from computers that do not run HCL VersionVault.
  - Configuring HCL VersionVault for high availability
  - Estimating VOB size
    If you can estimate the number of elements, versions, and derived objects that a VOB will ultimately contain, you can compute a very rough estimate of the size of a VOB that can accommodate them. VOB storage includes a database and pools. On Windows®, the database and pools must reside on a single disk partition. On Linux® or the UNIX system, the pools can be located on a different partition or host, using symbolic links.
  - Administering the VersionVault WAN server
  - About VersionVault WAN server parallel view loading
  - Administering and using CMI task-provider integrations
    HCL VersionVault supports integrations with task providers such as HCL Compass through the Change Management Interface (CMI). The integrations require some configuration tasks, after which you can work with UCM activities or base VersionVault branches that are associated with the tasks.
- Administering platforms for HCL VersionVault
  Learn how to perform HCL VersionVault administrative tasks on supported platforms.
- Administering HCL VersionVault MultiSite
  Learn to configure and manage the HCL VersionVault MultiSite environment to support development activities at different locations.

Moving an ACL-protected VOB between Linux or the UNIX system and Windows

The procedure for moving a VOB with ACLs enabled is the same as the procedure for moving a VOB to a different operating system, however, there are some special requirements.

Execute the move operation as the VOB owner. The fix_prot and vob_sidwalk operations need be executed by a privileged user. Special requirements for moving a VOB between Linux or the UNIX system and Windows with ACLs enabled:

vob_siddump must be executed as the VOB owner on Windows, otherwise it fails because of no permission.
fix_prot must be executed as a privileged user, otherwise it fail with no permission on some files/directories.
vob_sidwalk (with -execute or -recover_filesystem options) must be executed as a privileged user, otherwise it fails with no permission
reformatvob -load should be executed as the VOB owner, otherwise the VOB owner will be limited on some permissions of the VOB during the next steps.

To move a VOB from Windows to Linux or the UNIX system, use the standard procedure. If you are using a filer for VOB storage, and the filer is accessible from both Windows and Linux or the UNIX system VOB servers, you may leave the VOB in place on the filer rather than copying it to the new server. However, there are a few extra steps:

After locking the VOB, unmount it from the VOB server host and all clients. (Do this for all VOB moves, not just Windows to Linux or the UNIX system.)
Before executing fix_prot on the VOB storage, you must update all the files in the VOB storage directory on the filer to have Linux or UNIX-compatible protections, which you can do with a recursive chown command to the VOB owner, such as chown -R vobadmin myvob.vbs. Then proceed with the remaining steps.

The reformatvob, register, and mktag commands require the use of -host, -hpath, and -gpath flags (as appropriate), because the VOB storage is on a filer. For example:

cleartool reformatvob -load -host linux-hostname -hpath /nfs-4-enabled/pathname/myvob.vbs /nfs-4-enabled/pathname/myvob.vbs


cleartool register -replace -vob -host linux-hostname \
 -hpath /nfs-4-enabled/filer/vobstg/myvob.vbs /nfs-4-enabled/filer/vobstg/myvob.vbs
cleartool mktag -vob -replace -tag /vobs/myvob -host linux-hostname -gpath /net/filer/vol/vobstg/myvob.vbs /nfs-4-enabled/filer/vobstg/myvob.vbs

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