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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.
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.
Scrubbing to control VOB storage growth
Scrubber utilities remove unneeded data from VOB databases. You can control how often they run and what data they remove.
Adjusting default scrubbing parameters
Fine-tuning the scrubbing of derived objects

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.
  - 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.
    - The HCL VersionVault scheduler
      The HCL VersionVault scheduler provides a way to automate periodic maintenance on hosts that are configured with support for local VOBs and views.
    - Scrubbing to control VOB storage growth
      Scrubber utilities remove unneeded data from VOB databases. You can control how often they run and what data they remove.
      - Adjusting default scrubbing parameters
        Scrubbing derived objects more often
        Fine-tuning the scrubbing of derived objects
        Scrubbing less aggressively
    - About checkvob
      VOBs have complex internal and external relationships that can sometimes be disrupted by system or network failures or when a VOB is restored from backup. checkvob is a cleartool subcommand that can find, and in many cases fix, a variety of problems in these relationships.
    - View storage maintenance for dynamic views
      Encourage users to review, remove, and clean up their own views regularly. In addition, you should periodically remove unneeded shared dynamic views and clean up the private storage areas of those that are still in use.
  - 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.

Fine-tuning the scrubbing of derived objects

About this task

Suppose that the adjustment in the grace period is not enough to keep the disk partition from filling up. You might decide to run the scrubber utility more often: during the work day as well as overnight. To minimize the impact on users during the work day, you can pinpoint the scrubbing—perhaps to the DOs created in a particular directory.

This example shows the command-line syntax supported on Linux® or the UNIX® system, for moving a DO pool and scrubbing it more often.

Procedure

Determine the directory's current DO storage pool assignment.
You must clean up this storage pool.
cd /vobs/sources cleartool describe –long reorg@@
directory element "reorg@@": . . ... derived pool: ddft
This directory uses the default DO pool.
Assign the directory to a separate storage pool.
This assignment enables finer control of scrubbing, which can be invoked on a per-pool basis:
cd /vobs/sources cleartool mkpool –derived new_do_pool
Comments for "new_do_pool":
pool for DOs created in /vobs/sources/reorg .
Created pool "new_do_pool".cleartool chpool new_do_pool reorg
Changed pool for "reorg" to "new_do_pool".
Determine the location of the VOB storage directory.
Use the lsvob command:
cleartool lsvob /vobs/sources
* /vobs/sources /net/mars/vobstg/sources.vbs
Scrub the new storage pool thoroughly and often.
There are many ways to accomplish this. You can create a new task for the scheduler that invokes the scrubber utility for your new pool. For example:
scrubber –e –p new_do_pool /net/mars/vobstg/sources.vbs
This script invokes the scrubber on the derived object storage pool new_do_pool. The –e option removes DOs with a reference count of zero. You can then register your task in the scheduler's task database and create a new scheduled job to run the task several times per day. For more information about tasks and jobs, see The HCL VersionVault scheduler.
Clean up the old DO storage pool.
The chpool command in Step 2 does not move existing DO data containers; it affects only where a new DO's data container is stored. Accordingly, the old storage pool should be cleaned up:
versionvault-home-dir/etc/scrubber –e –p ddft /net/mars/vobstg/sources.vbs

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