Connecting to a Rational ClearCase server

You must connect to a Rational ClearCase server to access resources in ClearCase repositories.

As part of creating a ClearCase view, you connect to a Rational ClearCase server. Each ClearCase view that you create defines a server connection that you can reuse whenever you want to connect to the server that supports the view. For more information, see Creating a ClearCase view.

If you are working in a ClearCase view that is not connected, invoking any Rational ClearCase operation that requires a connection opens the Login to ClearCase dialog box. You can also use the following procedure to establish a connection to a ClearCase server that supports a ClearCase view you have created:

  1. Open the Login to ClearCase dialog box. You can do this in either of the following ways:
    • In the ClearCase Navigator, select a ClearCase view supported by the server to which you want to connect and click the clearcase server icon icon on the ClearCase toolbar or select Connect from the ClearCase context menu.
    • In the Eclipse environment, select any resource in a project that has been imported from a ClearCase view and then select Team > Connect from the context menu. This action connects to the ClearCase server that supports the view from which the resource was imported.
    • If you have previously established a connected to a ClearCase server, select the server node for that server in the ClearCase Navigator, right-click and select Connect.
  2. Type your user name into the User Name text box. The user name must be valid on the ClearCase server. If the ClearCase server is running Windows, the user name must include the Windows domain in which the account was created (for example, DOMAIN\user).
  3. Type your password into the Password text box. The password must be valid on the ClearCase server for the user name you supplied in the previous step.
  4. If you want the server URL and user name to be stored for future Eclipse sessions of the current workspace, select Store and reuse credentials. Your password is stored for the current session only.
  5. Click OK.
If the user name and password are valid, you are connected to the ClearCase server, and all ClearCase views supported by that server are marked connected in the ClearCase Navigator.
Note: The ClearCase server may be configured to invalidate connections after a period of inactivity. If your connection has been invalidated, invoking any ClearCase operation that requires a connection displays the Connect to ClearCase server dialog box and prompts you to reauthenticate with the server by supplying your password.
Related concepts
About the Rational ClearCase server
About connecting to servers and user databases
Related tasks
Disconnecting from a server or user database
Connecting to a Rational ClearQuest user database
Removing a server
Working disconnected
Related reference
Log in to ClearCase
Log in to ClearQuest
Log in to Change Management Server
Log in to proxy server
Choose a ClearCase server
ClearCase view creation wizards

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