ClearQuest/UCM Administration

Revision: TE3206_20060318

Course Length:

3 Days

Course Description:

This is a CM-oriented, classroom-based, instructor-led course that includes a full complement of hands-on laboratory exercises, designed to teach trained and experienced ClearQuest/UCM users everything they need to know about planning, acquiring, configuring, installing, customizing, and maintaining ClearQuest/UCM for small-, medium-, or large-scale projects. Students are able to choose either a UNIX or Windows laboratory environment.

Who Should Attend:

This course is intended for experienced ClearQuest/UCM users who must quickly learn the skills and concepts needed to plan, acquire, configure, install, and maintain ClearQuest/UCM for application in a dynamic development environment desiring to embrace sound CM practices and processes.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Plan a ClearQuest/UCM implementation.
• Implement defect & change tracking processes.
• Install, upgrade, & transfer ClearQuest/UCM hosts.
• Administer ClearQuest/UCM users & groups.
• Create & connect to repositories.
• Customize schemas & versioning.
• Use the ClearQuest designer.
• Manage ClearQuest Web & email.
• Create & manipulate states.
• Use ClearQuest scripting.
• Backup & restore ClearQuest data.

Prerequisites:

Change Management Using ClearQuest/UCM or three months experience using ClearQuest/UCM in a UNIX or Windows project and one year experience in a programming language (e.g., shell, perl, C, C++, VB, Java, etc.) is required.

Course Outline:

• Chapter 1: Planning Your ClearQuest/UCM Implementation
• Chapter 2: Understanding And Implementing Your Defect And Change Tracking Processes
• Chapter 3: Installing ClearQuest/UCM
• Chapter 4: Upgrades And Host Changes
• Chapter 5: Administering ClearQuest/UCM Users And Groups
• Chapter 6: Creating And Connecting To Repositories
• Chapter 7: Customizing Schemas And Versioning
• Chapter 8: The Behavior Of Records, Components, And Fields
• Chapter 9: Customizing With The ClearQuest Designer
• Chapter 10: Managing The ClearQuest Web And Email Subsystems
• Chapter 11: Import And Export Operations
• Chapter 12: Creating And Manipulating States
• Chapter 13: ClearQuest Scripting, Hooks, And Actions
• Chapter 14: Using The Command Line Interface
• Chapter 15: Understanding And Using The ClearQuest API Functions
• Chapter 16: Backing Up And Restoring ClearQuest/UCM Repositories
• Chapter 17: Report And Query Methodology
• Chapter 18: Avoiding Traps And Pitfalls
• Chapter 19: Tricks Of The ClearQuest/UCM Masters