Establishing cross-server communication from the HP adapter

Use the Rational® Adapter for HP ALM server administration interface to establish cross-server communication between Rational Adapter for HP ALM, the HP ALM server, Rational Requirements Composer, and Rational Team Concert™. Use this procedure to add the location information for each of the CLM applications, and send a request to the friend application.

Before you begin

After installing the Rational Adapter for HP ALM and completing the set up of the adapter, you must establish friend relationships between the Rational Adapter for HP ALM, the HP ALM server and the servers used by Rational Requirements Composer (the Jazz™ Team Server), and Rational Team Concert (Change and Configuration Management server).

If you are integrating with Rational ClearQuest®, see Technote 1580379 for information about configuring the friend relationships between Rational ClearQuest projects and the HP ALM application.

Important: If you have administrator rights you can automatically process server friend requests and approvals between the HP ALM server and the Jazz servers by selecting the check box Attempt to friend the HP ALM Adapter from the remote application in the steps.

You might also want to review the project associations that are possible between HP ALM projects and CLM projects to get an idea about what servers to friend. For details, see Using the HP adapter.

About this task

Add friend relationships to the Jazz Team Server and Change Configuration Management server to establish cross-server communication with the HP ALM server.

Procedure

  1. Point your browser to https://[fully qualified hostname]:[port]/hpqm. Login to the Rational Adapter for HP ALM server. Use an account that has administrator privileges, if applicable.
  2. On the Application Administration page, click Friends (Outbound). The Friends page opens.
  3. In the Add Friend section:
    1. For Name, type the name that you want to use to identify the HP ALM friend application. To create a friend relationship with an installation of Rational Requirements Composer that is hosted on a computer named rrc.example.com, then you might use the name RRC on rrc.example.com. To create a friend relationship with an installation of Rational Team Concert that is hosted on a computer named rtc.example.com, then you might use the name RTC on rtc.example.com
    2. For Root Services URI, type the uniform resource identifier for the Jazz application server. For example, using default context root values, for Rational Requirements composer, https://[fully qualified hostname]:[port]/rm/rootservices and for Rational Team Concert https://[fully qualified hostname]:[port]/ccm/rootservices
    3. If you have administrator privileges on the HP ALM server and the Jazz servers that you want to friend, select the check box next to Attempt to friend the HP ALM Adapter from the remote application. This option automatically requests and approves server friend requests between the HP ALM server and the Jazz servers.
    4. Click Add. If you selected the check box in the previous step, you are prompted for login credentials for the CLM applications. The new friend server is displayed in the Friend List section.
  4. Repeat step 3 to create another server friend request.
    Remember: Change the name and root services URI for the new server friend request and then click Add.

Results

From the Rational Adapter for HP ALM server administration interface you created server friend requests between Rational Adapter for HP ALM, the HP ALM server, Rational Requirements Composer, and Rational Team Concert. If you had administrator privileges you automatically processed server friend requests and approvals between the Rational Adapter for HP ALM, the HP ALM server and Rational Requirements Composer, and Rational Team Concert.

What to do next

Approve each friend request, see Approving an access request. You only need to approve each friend request if you did not select to automatically process server friend requests and approvals between the HP ALM server and Rational Requirements Composer, and Rational Team Concert by using the Attempt to friend the HP ALM Adapter from the remote application check box.


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