Archive for the ‘ClearCase’ Category

New: ALM Performance v1.6 is out!

We are happy to announce the new release of ALM Performance v1.6, our monitoring and alerting tool for Jenkins, ClearCase, ClearQuest. Since the release of the previous release (v1.5) a month ago, we have received and incorporated feedback from many of our users and we have tried to address all of needs with this latest version. This […]

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New: ALM Performance v1.5 is out!

We’re happy to announce the new release of ALM Performance v1.5, our monitoring and alerting tool for Jenkins, ClearCase, ClearQuest (formerly known as ALM Vitality tool). This development cycle was intensive – we received and incorporated feedback from many of our users and we have tried to answer all needs with this latest version. We’re […]

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New: Get all the info on changes to checked-out ClearCase files

A few months ago we released a new utility (named “Get Real Change”) that quickly determines where the code was REALLY changed; by whom; what defect \activity it’s related to, as well as other change–related info (and this works even the change was made on a faraway branch many years ago or even it was […]

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Installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Integration with ClearCase

Since releasing the demo on integrating ClearCase 9.0 with Visual Studio 2015 and with our Visual Annotate Extension for Visual Studio and ClearCase, I’ve been asked how to enable that ClearCase integration with Visual Studio 2015 – so I made a ZIP file for ClearCase users which should work for ClearCase 9.0. Note: (a) ClearCase […]

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ALM Vitality v1.4 is Out! See What’s New for Monitoring Jenkins, ClearCase, and ClearQuest

We’re happy to announce the new release of ALM Vitality v1.4, our vitality monitoring and alerting tool for Jenkins, ClearCase, ClearQuest. In this release we’re focused on some enhancements based on requests from our veteran users, including support for Oracle database; UI improvements and email alert improvements. Click to download   What is new in […]

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ClearCase 9.0 is out!

ClearCase 9.0 was finally released last week, giving me the opportunity to install it, see how it works and make sure that our complementary add-on tools are working seamlessly with this brand-new version! These are my insights so far: Installing new VOB server and clients on Windows is quite easy and straight-forward. You can also […]

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The Importance of well-defined thresholds when administering ClearCase, Jenkins or ClearQuest

This time I’d like to share some insights we observed when we helped our first users to install our monitoring & alerting tool for ClearCase, Jenkins and ClearQuest. A threshold is the point at which your system begins to experience difficulties. For example: high memory usage in your Jenkins master or a low number of […]

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How To Fix Outages Quickly And Avoid Embarrassing Faults

This time I’d like to talk about the touchy issue when a service (you take charge of) does not function and you’re the last one to know about… Would’t you want to avoid this the next time it happens? For instance, If you take charge of ClearCase: don’t you want to know when a certain […]

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The Challenge of Getting Full Control Over Your ClearCase ClearQuest Deployment

We at ALMtoolbox spend a great portion of our time talking and understanding our customer’s pains. One of the most painful issues ClearCase & ClearQuest administrators raise is that they cannot control all of the parts of their environment if they are not part of the IT team. As a result the administrator may not […]

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ALM Vitality v1.2 is Out! See What’s New for Jenkins, ClearCase, and ClearQuest

We’re happy to announce the new release of ALM Vitality v1.2, our vitality monitoring tool for Jenkins, ClearCase, ClearQuest: What is new in this version? We enhanced the monitoring over Jenkins: now you can monitor the all the following applicative and IT resources. On the application side, it monitors the following for each master and […]

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