Chapter 26 Administering Regions

This chapter discusses administration of network regions. A region is a conceptual subset of a ClearCase registry in which hosts refer to shared resources using the same network naming conventions. You do not need to create multiple registry regions if all ClearCase hosts in your network can use the same pathname to access each VOB and view storage directory. In any mixed network of UNIX and Windows computers, differences between UNIX and Windows network naming conventions require that global pathnames and other information in VOB-tags and view-tags be entered in a platform-specific syntax. If you are administering a mixed UNIX/Windows network, or if your network includes ClearCase servers that have multiple network interfaces, you must define separate network regions for hosts with different naming conventions. Regions are maintained by the ClearCase registry.