configuration management Questions

Configuration Baseline
By Joshua Robinson - June 6, 2018No Answers

I'm the Configuration Manager for a large enterprise project. I was added to the team after around 8 months worth of developement/staging had already taken place. We're working toward a short-term ATO, and PMO is looking to baseline our applications. My argument is that we're not ready to baseline, as we're still in developemnt. No configuation items are recorded in Remedy, the Change Managemnet process isn't fleshed out (as that is also my tasking), and we have no historical records that I can find for how are architecture came to this point. Simply, here, this is version one, and now start documenting from this point forward.  Am I worng in my push-back on this stance? Shouldn't I first work to identify the CIs and their historical changes (as best as I can documnet)? Further info: this system will be the subject of an offical audit, not just my configuration audit.

How We can create Customized Vagrant Box of CentOS or Debian based OS quickly?
By Amit Kumar Pandey - January 8, 2018No Answers

With help of Oracle Virtual Box provider, how we can create our own customized vagrant box with in-house tools?

What are the current IBM/Rational offerings?
By Arthur Adams - August 24, 20171 Answer

I've used Ratiional ClearCase and ClearQuest in the past, but it's been a long time - at least seven years since I used CQ, and probably a decade since I used CC. On a project where we used both, I had them integrated. (I used them enough to refer to them collectively as "ClearWaste".)

I'm currently tasked with evaluating various CM-related suites for where I'm working now, and I'm finding it very confusing to determine just what IBM is currently offering.

I see ClearCase and ClearQuest are still sold. Are they actively supported?

As far as I can tell, DOORS and DOORSNg have replaced RequisitePro.

I see there's Jazz and Team Concert -- what's the difference between the two?

Does Team Concert use the other tools like ClearCase, ClearQuest, and DOORS? Does it replace them?

And finally, do the IBM tools still have a very cost compared to tools like the Atlassian Suite and Microsoft TFS?

I'm kind of limited in what I can see at IBM's web site since they use a great deal of YouTube videos and YouTube is blocked here. The only browser we have is IE and the IBM web sites to try demo version of the tools won't on IE, either.

What steps must the CM Manager perform to properly complete a CM project?
By Adrian Kern - January 11, 2017No Answers

What steps must the CM Manager perform to properly complete a CM project?

Remove mercurial subrepos and move it to main repository. Please suggest the good way to perform the same?
By Sithik Settu Mohamed - December 1, 2016No Answers

Am working in a old project which has many hg subrepos which seems to be problematic. Am planning to remove subrepos and move to main repository. Is there any better approach to do the same or any tools? Also want to maintain the same metadata and not interested to add all subrepo as single commit to main repository.

Automation of IT operations from cloud
By Arturs Bartusevics - October 26, 20161 Answer

Hello,

I have a number of Linux shell scripts for automation of particular operations. For example: merging SVN revisions from one branch to other, update statuses of JIRA tickets, make an Oracle eBS build from sources stored in SVN or git etc. 

I'm trying to use these automation scripts for different infrastuctures and customers. But I cannot share the script code for mentioned customers. Is it possible to put automation shell scripts in cloud and call these scripts from different infrastuctures? Are some available technical solutions how to call Linux shell scripts from cloud?

For example in cloud I could have shell function svn_merge() with parameters. But this script could be called from different infras with different parameters like "svn_merge <parameters>".

I will be happy to see any suggestions, any links to any free or commercial solutions.

 

Thanks in advance!

Arturs

 

Does anyone know of any good reference material on establishing a good Baseline
By Gerald Evans - September 7, 2016No Answers

I am looking to established a good CM Baseline, and I need some reference material that walks me through successfully establishing and maintaining a good CM Baseline

How to manually change an object version status from "Rejected" to "Released" in CM/Synergy
By Pashan None - August 25, 20163 Answers

Hello Support,

Can you please tell me if there is a CLI way to manually change the attribute "status" from rejected to released state for an object within CM/SYnergy?

I tried to delete "status" attribute. It doesn't even allow me to delete.

I am ccm_admin role.

If I do "ccm attr -s status object_full_name" it does show me a rejected. I need to change it to "released".

I know base model doesn't allow.

But i need to override for some objects with ccm_admin privilege.

Thank you.

 

 

Exclamation status "A comment is required to check in object(s)" while sync projects in Rational Synergy version 7.2
By Sameer Deshmukh - July 27, 2016No Answers

Project is 1.3 Gig and sync times out with status "A comment is required to check in object(s)"

Is there a best pratice, DoD, etc. best pratice terminology for Change Management Plan and/or Configuration Management Plan?
By Germaine Williams - May 24, 20161 Answer

I am in the process of revising the current Change Management Plan to read as an Enterprise Change Management Plan to include functional systems and enclaves. Is there a DoD and/or ITIL standard for naming this document to be uniform accross the projects.

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