Step 4: User Access

After installing and customizing ClearDDTS you must make the application accessible to your users. The details for this are different depending on whether your users access ClearDDTS via the web (webddts) or via one of the UNIX-based interfaces (xddts, findbug, and so on).

Access from the web

To make ClearDDTS accessible via the web, do the following:

1. If your web server and ClearDDTS server are on different machines, export and mount the ClearDDTS home directory on the web server system. Read the section about "Checking the Installation and Informing New Users" in Chapter 1, Installing ClearDDTS, of the ClearDDTS Installation and Licensing Guide. It describes exporting and mounting the ClearDDTS home directory.
   
   
2. Set up web security. See Customizing security in Step 3 or read Chapter 12, Managing ClearDDTS Security, in the ClearDDTS Administrator's Guide.
   
   
3. Launch the webddts interface by pointing your browser to:
   
        http://<host>/<ddts>/ddts_main.sh
   
   where <host> is your HTTP server and <ddts> is the alias for the directory containing the ClearDDTS scripts.
   
   
   
   

Access from UNIX

To make ClearDDTS accessible via the UNIX-based interfaces read the section about "Checking the Installation and Informing New Users" in Chapter 1, Installing ClearDDTS, of the ClearDDTS Installation and Licensing Guide.

PATH setup

If your environment contains multiple architectures, you can install the binaries for each different architecture into different directories (bin directories) within the ClearDDTS home directory. The ~ddts/bin directory is a symbolic link to the version of the bin directory that is appropriate for the hardware and operating system of the ClearDDTS server machine. For other machines that NFS-mount the ClearDDTS home directory, you can run the correct architecture-specific binaries by putting the correct ~ddts/*_bin directory into your PATH. Since the PATH is pointing to the correct binary, when a user runs ClearDDTS, the version for the user's machine architecture is invoked. For examples of how to edit your PATH see "Making ClearDDTS Available to New Users" in Chapter 1, Installing ClearDDTS, of the ClearDDTS Installation and Licensing Guide.

$DDTSHOME variable

You can access any number of different ClearDDTS installations as long as the client machine can reach the home directories of other installations through NFS. To do this, set the environment variable $DDTSHOME to point to the home directory for the ClearDDTS installation you want to access, then launch xddts. If you are using webddts, you can change the $DDTSHOME variable from the Defaults page. See Chapter 3, Logging In and Setting Defaults, of the ClearDDTS User's Guide for more information.

[TOC] [Step 1: Planning] [Step 2: Installation] [Step 3: Customization] [Step 4: User Access] [Step 5: Distribution]