Establishing friend relationships from the adapter

Use the adapter server administration interface to establish friend relationships between the adapter application, the HP ALM server, Requirements Management, and Change and Configuration Management. Use this procedure to add the location information for each of the CLM applications, and send a request to each CLM friend application.

Before you begin

Verify that your Requirements Management applications, Change and Configuration Management applications, and HP ALM server are started.

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.

Review the project associations that are possible between HP ALM projects and CLM projects to learn about what servers to friend, see Using the HP adapter.

About this task

You add a friend relationship to the Change and Configuration Management server and the Requirements Management server.

Procedure

  1. Point your browser to https://fully qualified hostname:port/hpqm. Log in 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 CLM 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, by 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 application friend request.
    Remember: Change the name and root services URI for the new server friend request and then click Add.

Results

A friend request exists between the adapter and a Change and Configuration Management application and a Requirements Management application.

What to do next

Approve each friend request only if you did not select to automatically process server friend requests and approvals between the HP ALM server and the Jazz servers by using the Attempt to friend the HP ALM Adapter from the remote application check box. For more information about approving friend requests, see Approving an access request.


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