Archive for the ‘Monitoring’ Category

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

The past year was a great year for us, and we keep investing in developing new add-on tools and extending the ALM tools we support! See our new tools and our upcoming tools below. We also extended our team of experts who provide professional services. We’d be glad to help you with any challenges you […]

It has been 6 weeks since we released the first version of ALM Vitality, so now is a good time to share a few insights we’ve received from our ALM Vitality users. We will also share what is new in ALM Vitality and show how you can benefit from the application growth. Here is the […]

We’re happy to announce the new release of ALM Vitality v1.1, our vitality monitoring tool for ClearCase, ClearQuest and Jenkins. What is new in this version? We enhanced the email support with SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).  We improved the security layer by adding the ability to configure sender details. Now, organizations that require user […]

I’m happy to update you about a new service for administrators and a new add-on tool for developers and DevOps folks using ClearCase that we are offering. New Service: Health Checks for ClearCase VOBs We now offer a new service based on our unique “ClearCheck” add-on tool for ClearCase. ClearCheck scans ClearCase VOB servers, runs […]

Last week, we had the privilege of demonstrating our upcoming ALM performance monitoring and vitality monitoring tools (for ClearCase \ ClearQuest \ Jenkins) at the C5I conference in Israel (C5I stands for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Collaboration… and Intelligence)   The event was both very effective and fun! It is always a pleasure to meet […]

ClearCheck, our add-on solution for monitoring the health of ClearCase enviornments, has a command line interface that enables administrators to include checks as part of the daily locking and unlocking of VOBs for backup. To download a trial version, click here: https://www.almtoolbox.com/download.php?did=1 Windows In most cases, the backup script includes the following steps: Lock all ClearCase […]