Chapter 9 Setting Up VOBs

This chapter presents a procedure for setting up your network's ClearCase data repository, a set of globally accessible VOBs. These are the major steps:

• Select a host for a new VOB.

• Modify operating system resources, if necessary.

• Create one or more VOB storage locations if you want.

• Create the VOB (and, if necessary, adjust its registry and identity information, to ensure global accessibility and implement access controls).

• Coordinate the VOB with other existing VOBs.

• Populate the VOB with new or existing development data.

After VOBs are set up, they can be activated for use with dynamic views with the cleartool mount command (or from the VOB Admin Browser on UNIX or, on Windows, with the Rational ClearCase Explorer or Windows Explorer). Two common user mistakes users make that can make a VOB invisible to their dynamic views are forgetting to mount the VOB and forgetting to work in a view. Users of snapshot views must load the view from a VOB before they can access VOB data. Chapter 18, Setting Up Views, discusses the procedure for setting up views.

By default, UNIX hosts mount all public VOBs at ClearCase startup time. See the reference page for the cleartool mount command for details.

To arrange for a Windows host to mount a VOB each time you log on, do one of the following:

• Select the Reconnect at Logon check box in the Mount dialog box when you first mount the VOB.

• Use the -persistent option to cleartool mount.

• Add a cleartool mount command to a .BAT file in the Startup program group.