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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.
Improving client host performance
View caches
To improve its performance, the view_server process associated with a view maintains a cache. The default size of this cache is adequate for typical views, but a larger cache can further improve the performance of views in which very large software systems are built by omake or clearmake.
Reference information
The mvfsstat and mvfscache utilities are intended primarily to help HCL Software Customer Support diagnose problems with the MVFS. No locks or mastership restrictions apply for either of these utilities, but certain options require privileged user status.

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.
  - 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
    - Examining and adjusting MVFS cache size
      HCL VersionVault hosts that use dynamic views might benefit from MVFS cache tuning. Default MVFS cache sizes scale automatically based on host memory and are appropriate for a wide range of client needs, but you might want to change default MVFS cache sizes to improve performance in specific cases after performing a performance evaluation in your environment.
    - View caches
      To improve its performance, the view_server process associated with a view maintains a cache. The default size of this cache is adequate for typical views, but a larger cache can further improve the performance of views in which very large software systems are built by omake or clearmake.
      - Obtaining view cache information
        To examine a view’s cache information, use cleartool getcache –view.
      - Reconfiguring a view cache
        Use setcache –view to reconfigure a view server’s cache to a new size.
      - Reference information
        The mvfsstat and mvfscache utilities are intended primarily to help HCL Software Customer Support diagnose problems with the MVFS. No locks or mastership restrictions apply for either of these utilities, but certain options require privileged user status.
        mvfscache
        mvfscache manipulates a host’s MVFS caches. Nearly all of its options are redundant with similar options provided by setcache –mvfs or getcache –mvfs. Use those commands whenever possible.
        mvfsstat
        The mvfsstat command displays MVFS use and operating statistics, including cumulative statistics on MVFS cache use, RPC statistics, cleartext I/O counts, vnode operation counts, and VFS operation counts. This data is useful for evaluating file system performance and determining whether MVFS cache sizes require adjustment.
  - 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, Rational® Team Concert (RTC), and Atlassian Jira through the Change Management Interface (CMI).
- 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.

Reference information

The mvfsstat and mvfscache utilities are intended primarily to help HCL Software Customer Support diagnose problems with the MVFS. No locks or mastership restrictions apply for either of these utilities, but certain options require privileged user status.