If you are using a Web view or automatic view, you must connect to a
Rational®
ClearCase® (WAN) server to access resources
in ClearCase repositories.
Before you begin
As part of creating a ClearCase Web view or
automatic view, you connect to the CCRC WAN server. Each such 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.
About this task
You can also use the following procedure to establish a connection to the CCRC WAN server that
supports the ClearCase view you have created:
Procedure
- Open the Login to ClearCase dialog box. You can do this in either of the
following ways:
- In the ClearTeam Navigator, select a ClearCase view supported by the server to which you want
to connect and click the
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 from the context menu. This action connects to the CCRC WAN server that supports the
view from which the resource was imported.
- If you have previously established a connection to the CCRC WAN server, select the server
node for that server in the ClearTeam Navigator, right-click and select
Connect.
- Enter the URL for the CCRC WAN server in the Server URL
field or select a server URL from the drop-down menu. The CCRC WAN
server URL generally takes the following form: http://<server:port>/ccrc
- Type your user name into the User
Name text box. The user name must be valid
on the CCRC WAN server. If the server is running Windows, the user
name must include the Windows domain in which the account was created
(for example, DOMAIN\user).
- 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.
- If you want the server URL and the 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.
- Click OK.
Results
If the user name and password are valid, you are connected to the CCRC WAN server, and all
ClearCase views supported by that server are
marked
connected in the
ClearCase Navigator.
Note: The CCRC WAN 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 CCRC WAN Server dialog box and prompts
you to re-authenticate with the server by supplying your password.