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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.
Relocating elements to another VOB
The cleartool relocate command moves elements to another VOB.
Steps to take before relocating elements
To ensure that a relocate operation succeeds, you must take some preliminary steps.

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.
      - Steps to take before relocating elements
        To ensure that a relocate operation succeeds, you must take some preliminary steps.
      - Special considerations for replicated VOBs
      - Handling borderline elements
        When an element is cataloged in more than one VOB directory, relocate classifies it as a borderline element if any directory in which it is catalogued is not displayed in the set of elements selected by the view in which you run relocate.
      - Handling errors during a relocate operation
        When the relocate command encounters a problem, you can usually fix it and restart relocate with the same command line; the operation continues from the point of the error.
      - After elements are relocated
        Verify that the relocated elements are visible in the views that need to use them.
      - Using update mode
        The relocate command has an update mode that preserves the source elements while creating the targets. This mode can be useful in certain cases, but should be used with care.
    - 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.
  - 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.

Steps to take before relocating elements

To ensure that a relocate operation succeeds, you must take some preliminary steps.

About this task

The procedure that follows describes how to detect and correct problems that can cause a relocate operation to fail:

Procedure

If either the source or target VOB is replicated, coordinate the relocate operation with administrators of other replicas.
Elements to be relocated must be mastered in the current replica and inactive at all replica sites. See Special considerations for replicated VOBs.
(Dynamic views only) Move view-private files out of directories that you plan to relocate.
View-private files that are not moved become stranded after relocation is complete. Stranded files can be recovered by running the recoverview command, but it is easier to move them before running relocate.
Resolve all checkouts in directories that you plan to relocate.
The relocate command fails if it encounters a checked-out version in any directory it is trying to relocate. To find and resolve (check in or cancel) these checkouts, use the Referenced Views subnode of the VOBs node in the HCL VersionVault Administration Console. You can also use the cleartool lsdo and lscheckout commands.
Remove any rmelem triggers.
Unless it is running in –update mode, relocate uses rmelem to remove elements from the source VOB. If a trigger is attached to rmelem, this step fails, and you must remove these elements manually (see Errors while removing elements from the source VOB).
Establish a working view.
Use a view whose config spec selects the branch (typically main) on which the move is to occur. The view in which you run relocate must be able to check out elements in both the source and target VOBs, so its config spec must include a CHECKEDOUT rule. After you run relocate, you might need to use this view (or a view with the same config spec) to clean up, as described in Fixing problems with existing views after relocating elements.
Run relocate in test mode.
Run the intended relocate command and monitor its output, but stop short of moving any elements by responding no at this prompt:
Do you want to relocate these objects? [no]

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