To determine what you need to configure, review the decisions you made when Planning your upgrade.
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Task | Client and/or Server | Information | Comments |
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Restart servers to verify a successful upgrade | Server | Restart and verify servers | |
Clear browser cache | Client | Clearing the browser cache before you use the Rational ClearQuest Web client | |
Upgrade feature levels | Server | Changing the feature level and metaschema version | |
Configure the features that are part of the feature level you have upgraded to | Server | Revisit the section, Decide on the feature level for schema repositories and databases to determine which features require configuration. | |
Migrating from Change Management (CM) Server to CQ Web Server | Server | Migrating ClearQuest Web configuration settings | Complete the migration from CM server to CQ Web Server. |
Select the packages to upgrade. Upgrading packages to the latest version ensures that you can take advantage of the latest feature and performance enhancements. | Server | Upgrading packages to the latest versions | |
Apply packages to schemas | Client Server |
Upgrading packages | |
Configuring secure connections | Server | Configuring secure connections | |
Update the ClearQuest Welcome page configuration | Server | Set the HELP_SERVER_URL property
in the CqServerConn.properties file to this value HELP_SERVER_URL=http://localhost:<port_number> |
If you configure Rational ClearQuest with
SSL, this task is required after upgrading from ClearQuest version
7.x to 8.x or later. Replace <port_number> with the HTTP port configured for use with the ClearQuest Web Server, http://localhost:8080 for example. |
Configure Reporting | Server | Reporting deployment planning | |
Change data code pages | Server | Working with Rational ClearQuest data code pages | |
Test client upgrade success, announce server availability, provide new Web URL for Rational ClearQuest Web, and provide users with the location to upgrade their clients from and to update their connections | Client Server |
Propagating connection information to clients |