You can add lab resources to IBM® Rational® Build Forge® by using the lab
management feature in IBM Rational Quality Manager.
Before you begin
The function that this topic describes might
not be available, depending on how lab management permissions and
client access licenses have been defined for your user account. The
Rational Build Forge (version 7.0.2
iFix2 or higher) agent must be installed on the target machine.
About this task
To add a lab resource to
Rational Build Forge using
Rational Quality Manager:
Procedure
- Point to Lab Management (
), and click All
Lab Resources. The All Lab Resources editor opens.
- Select a lab resource to add to Rational Build Forge. Be sure that either
the IP address or the hostname is defined. If it is not defined, you
must add this information to the lab resource.
- To enter the IP address, point to Hardware and
if necessary, click the Expand icon (
). In IP Address, type the
IP address of the machine.
- To enter the hostname, point to Operating
System and if necessary, click the Expand icon
(
) and then click the Add icon
(
) to open the Operating System
section. In Hostname, type the hostname of
the machine.
- Click the Add to provider icon (
). The Add Lab Resource
to Build Forge window opens.
- Enter the user name and password of the user account on
the lab resource that you are adding to Rational Build Forge.
- In Provider, select the Rational Build Forge server to add the lab resource to. In most cases,
the default value for the Rational Build Forge server is correct.
- In Temp Path, type the path to the Rational Build Forge agent folder. This
field is mandatory.
- If the Rational Build Forge agent machine is
configured to use a port other than the default port of 5555, in Port,
type the port number. If you did not configure an alternate port for
the Rational Build Forge agent machine or
accept the default during the installation of the agent machine, then
you do not need to enter anything in the Port field.
- Click Save. The progress bar shows
progress in connecting to the Rational Build Forge server. A status message displays that states the lab resource
was successfully added to Rational Build Forge.
Results
If the lab resource was not added to
Rational Build Forge, an error message
displays that explains why the lab resource was not added. Common
reasons that a lab resource cannot be added to
Rational Build Forge include:
- The Rational Build Forge server cannot find
the IP address or hostname.
- The user name and password are not valid credentials on the target
machine.
- If the Rational Build Forge agent machine uses
a port with a number other than the default, then that port number
must be entered in the Port field in the Add
Lab Resource to Build Forge window.