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What if your software development organization could vastly accelerate the build and release process?
What if you could do all this while leveraging your existing investments? That’s where IBM Rational Build Forge software can help.
IBM Rational Automation Framework is a customizable framework that provides automation of environment build-outs, configuration management and application deployments on heterogeneous middleware platforms. Rational Automation Framework helps cut operational costs, improves productivity, and enables you to gain control over complex middleware environments.
Rational Build Forge is multifaceted software with many uses, from basic build capabilities to advanced integrations with other IBM and open source software.
With basic-use tutorials, you can begin by creating and running a simple Hello World project, and move on to address more complex features such as environments, dot commands and adaptors. Each of the following tutorials will take about 30 minutes to complete. You can walk through the step-by-step instructions in the tutorial documents while watching the narrated videos.
1. Creating and scheduling a project in Build Forge (Hello World)
2. Libraries and pass/fail chains
3. Administration (controlling user access)
4. Log Filters (with Apache Ant)
5. Environment Variables
6. Dot Commands
7. Agent Update
Learn how to make Rational Build Forge even more powerful by combining its capabilities with those of other IBM Rational software. With the following resources, you can quickly gain an understanding of the benefits of integration and begin implementing these integrations within your organization.
Windows Resource Kits
The Microsoft® Windows Resource Kit Tools are a set of tools to help administrators streamline management tasks such as troubleshooting operating system issues, managing Active Directory®, configuring networking and security features, and automating application deployment.
Task and Responsibilities
About the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit
Once you have download and installed the resource kit (very easy process), you are pretty much set up, now all you need to do it work with each tool so you know what they can do, and that’s the intention of this article series.
After the installation, go to Start => All Programs => Windows Resource Kit Tools => Command Shell
Download – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=17657
If you do a dir, you will see the directory listing for all the files listed here. Each file has a brief description of what it does:
Clearmem.exe: Clear Memory
Compress.exe: Compress Files
Confdisk.exe: Disk Configuration Tool
Consume.exe: Memory Consumers Tool
Dh.exe: Display Heap
Delprof.exe: User Profile Deletion Utility
Diskuse.exe: User Disk Usage Tool
Gpmonitor.exe: Group Policy Monitor
Instsrv.exe: Service Installer
Memmonitor.exe: Memory Monitor
Vrfydsk.exe: Verify Disk
Reference – http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles-tutorials/windows-2003/Windows-Server-2003-Resource-Kit.html
What is Windows Service?
Windows Service applications run for a long time and are mostly used in server environments therefore they are usually called long-running applications. Capability to create windows service is one of the powerful features of .net.
Windows Service applications do not have any user interface or they do not produce any visual output. Services can run in the background while a user is performing or executing any other task in the foreground. If any user messages are generated, they are written to the Windows Event Log.
Windows Services are controlled by the Service Control Manager that helps to start, stop or pause the windows service, as needed.
Examples of windows services include task scheduling, running message queues, file indexing, plug and play device detection etc.
In the source code, Windows Service extends the System.ServiceProcess.Service class.
All Windows Services that are built in .NET need to extend this class. Visual studio includes the following methods by default, which are overridden by the service when it is created.
Dispose – clean up any managed and unmanaged resources
OnStart – control the service startup
OnStop – control the service stoppage
How to create Windows Service?
Windows troubleshooting For Build Issues
Chkdsk
The Windows Chkdsk (check disk) utility can find and fix common problems with disks and storage devices.
Disk Cleanup utility
The Disk Cleanup utility is a simple tool in Windows XP and Windows Vista that can remove temporary files from your PC, thus freeing up hard disk space.
Any Server will (mostly) do
Prerequisties
Experience in relevant programming language
What is CGI
Common Interface Gateway
ANY SERVER WILL (MOSTLY) do
Some Guidelines for Unix/Apapche users
Some Guidelines for Windows Servers
Many Windows servers do not support perl or PHP
May require ASP or C#
Usually require specific filename extension
.pl for perl
.php for php
.asp or .aspx for ASP
Access to error log
Check with your server web site or support staff
How CGI works
My Perforce Streams log can be found in following location.
http://community.scmgalaxy.com/pg/file/read/40841/know-more-about-perforce-streams
Perforce Replication
Replication is the duplication of server data from one Perforce Server to another Perforce Server, ideally in real time. You can use replication to:
NOTES:
Limitation:
System Requirement:
Challenge
Issues 1: The master and replica servers must have the same time zone setting
Today I was just going through P4 replication features with the correspondence of Disaster recovery(Replication), as well as bbalance load efficiently using p4 broker and p4 replica.
We can have cross-geo Disaster recovery(Replication) setup as soon as, we have same time zone setting in both (master and replica) server. Replica server is unidirectional (read-only) so making same time zone in two difference location would not make any difference since all development activities will be happening though master servers/proxies only.
But
I learned that if we go replication with cross geo then we will not be able to take advantage of balance load efficiently as follows.
Issues 2: p4 replicate and p4 pull (when replicating metadata) do not read compressed journals. Therefore, the master server must not compress rotated journals until the replica server has fetched all journal records from older journals
The replication process is designed to have as little latency as possible between the replica and the master; the compression/decompression of the journal
and manipulation of compressed data introduces additional delay and complexity which in turn increases the potential difference between the state of the master and the replica.
To Setup Replication
p4d -r $P4ROOT “-cset replica1#startup.1=p4 pull -i 2”
p4d -r $P4ROOT “-cset replica1#startup.1=p4 pull -u -i 2”
To unset Replication
p4d -r $P4ROOT "-cunset replica1#startup.1"
To list all server configuration variables,
use –cshow:
p4d -r $P4ROOT -cshow
This blog work still in progress…Still in Progress…
Reference
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/r10.2/manuals/p4sag/10_replication.html
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/cmdref/pull.html
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/cmdref/configure.html#1040665
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/cmdref/replicate.html#1046521
http://kb.perforce.com/article/1099
http://kb.perforce.com/article/1352/accessing-server-configuration-variables
http://kb.perforce.com/article/1099
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/r10.2/manuals/p4sag/10_replication.html
Apache Subversion 1.7 has Arrived
Subversion 1.7.0 has been officially released today. With the release of Subversion 1.7 comes the release of Subversion Edge 2.1.0. This release of Subversion Edge brings you the server binaries for Subversion 1.7.0 as well as the latest release of Apache httpd. In addition to the inclusion of the Subversion 1.7 server binaries this release of Subversion Edge brings a number of other nice improvements including the addition of a complete 64-bit Windows binary stack. As with all previous Subversion Edge releases you can simply update your existing installation from the Subversion Edge web console. There are no other special considerations, the update mechanism handles all details.
I encourage all users to update their Subversion Edge servers to this release so that you and your users can enjoy the new features brought from this release as well as the improved performance and fixes that comes with Subversion 1.7. Look for updates to your favorite Subversion clients to follow shortly.
Source: http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/2011/10/subversion-1-7-0-released/
Perforce 2011.1 released 11/07/2011
Perforce Release 2011.1 is now available. Check for platform and component availability.
Source: http://www.perforce.com/aggregator/sources/2