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52 <li>Investigated Clearquest License server</li>
55 <p><b>Time Spent:</b> 3 Hours</p>
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58 <p>Dylan Ko wrote:</p>
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61 <p>I have already turned on the sons-clearcase. As we are busy integrating on several projects now, we can not afford to have sons-clearcase down and thus cripple the ClearQuest and the sync between SC and SH office.</p>
63 <p>We’ll have to find some other appropriate time to turn off sons-clearcase and look into these issues further. Preferably that time that both sites are off – between 3AM to 9AM PST.</p>
66 <p>OK, here's what I found out so far. Using adefaria as a test machine I first checked to see what FlexLM license server was being used on that machine by selecting <b>Start: All Programs: Rational Software: Rational License Key Administrator</b>. It was using just sons-clearcase. Next I attempting to talk to Clearquest by both the Clearquest GUI and cqc. Then I stopped the FlexLM service on sons-clearcase. I then started the Clearquest GUI and it complained about no license server. Interestingly cqc continued to work. This may be because cqc/cqd opens the Clearquest database in a read only mode.</p>
68 <p>Next I added sons-sc-cc as a FlexLM License server and retested. Both the Clearcase GUI and cqc were able to obtain a license from sons-sc-cc with no problems. I even shutdown Clearcase on sons-clearcase and I was still able to use Clearcase GUI and cqc from adefaria with no problems.</p>
70 <p>I then restarted both FlexLM and Clearcase on sons-clearcase.</p>
72 <p>Dylan, perhaps you want to test this on your workstation. Try adding sons-sc-cc as a FlexLM license server for your desktop. You can toggle off sons-clearcase as a license server and attempt to access Clearquest. You can then stop the FlexLM service on sons-clearcase and test Clearquest access from your machine again. Finally try shutting down Clearcase on sons-clearcase and retest Clearquest access from your machine.</p>
74 <h3>Adding a FlexLM License Server to your Desktop</h3>
77 <li>Select <b>Start: All Programs: Rational Software: Rational
78 License Key Administrator</b>:<br>
80 <img src="/blogs/Status/images/RLKA_sons-clearcase.jpg" alt=""></li>
83 <li>Select <b>License Keys: License Key Wizard<br>
85 </b><img src="/blogs/Status/images/LKA_Wizard.jpg" alt=""><br>
89 <li>Select <b>Next<br>
91 <img src="/blogs/Status/images/Server_Name_and_Port.jpg" alt=""><br>
94 <li>Select <b>Advanced Server Options:<br>
96 </b><img src="/blogs/Status/images/Client_Server_Configuration.jpg" alt=""><br>
99 <li>Select <b>Add Server:<br>
101 <img src="/blogs/Status/images/Client_Server_Configuration2.jpg" alt=""><br>
104 <li>Click on <b>Values</b> under the <b>Settings</b> on the right
105 on the <font color="#ff0000">Server Name</font> column type sons-sc-cc
106 and <b>Enter</b>. The server name should change from "New Server"
107 -> "sons-sc-cc":<br>
109 <img src="/blogs/Status/images/Client_Server_Configuration3.jpg" alt=""><br>
111 At this point you can toggle on or off either sons-clearcase or
112 sons-sc-cc as a license server provider.<br>
115 <li>Select <b>OK</b> to close this dialog box. You should see
118 <img src="/blogs/Status/images/RLKA_both.jpg" alt=""><br>
120 Note that there are 3 lines, two serviced by sons-clearcase (Rational
121 ClearCase LT and Rational ClearQuest) and one serviced by sons-sc-cc
122 (Rational ClearQuest). Also note that if you stop FlexLM on
123 sons-clearcase and refresh or return the Rational Key License
124 Administrator then licenses served by sons-clearcase will not be listed
125 (since the server cannot be contacted.<br>
129 <p>Similarly, all desktops (or Clearquest GUI clients) will have to adjust
130 their FlexLM License Key Server in a similar manner. Also note that you
131 can, instead of adding a server, simply click on the sons-clearcase
132 server then click on <b>Values</b> under the <b>Settings</b> on the
133 right on the <font color="#ff0000">Server Name</font> column and
134 replace sons-clearcase with sons-sc-cc.</p>
136 <p>If the test is successful then I believe that sons-clearcase can be powered off. Again, I think we should still run about a week this way and if things are OK then I can rmreplica the US replicas leaving only the China (sons-cc) ones and the SantaClara (sons-sc-cc) ones.</p>
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