Savvy planning of your deployment is key to building an Engineering Lifecycle Management solution environment that meets your business and technical needs—both now and with the flexibility to scale for future growth.  The deployment wiki is a great place to find insight to aid you in your deployment planning.  It’s built upon the experience of our deployment experts among development, services, support, partners and customers.

Our deployment experts are always on the lookout for patterns, best practices, guidance, and recommendations to harvest from the many engagements they participate in.  In this post, I want to highlight a number of the noteworthy insights captured over the last year.

Installation and Upgrade

• Configuring Single Sign-On (SSO) across WebSphere Liberty Profiles
• Reverse Proxies and Load Balancers in CLM Deployment
• Upgrading a cluster of Change and Configuration Management applications

Cloud/SaaS

• Engineering Lifecycle Management SaaS

Performance and Scalability

• Rational DOORS Next Generation: Organizing requirements for best performance
• Collaborative Lifecycle Management performance and scalability report: Rational DOORS Next Generation 6.0.4 and 6.0.5 with Components
• Performance test results for Rational DOORS Next Generation 6.0.6 ifix3 with Components
• Leveraging Database Partitioning in RQM for Data Growth
• Understanding the performance of SQL statements in Oracle

Serviceability

Resource-intensive Scenarios

• Known Resource-intensive Scenarios (UPDATED)
• Register Custom Scripts As a Resource-intensive Scenario

Enterprise Monitoring

• CLM Managed Bean Overview
• CLM Monitoring Primer
• JMX MBeans Reference List
• JMX MBean Utilities

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

Troubleshooting

• Deployment Patterns and Anti-patterns when using Third Party Cloud Environments

Usage Model / Best Practices

Configuration Management

• Maintaining the DOORS Next type system in a configuration management environment (Part 1: manual procedures, Part 2: Automation, Part 3: Automation Tool Deep Dive)
• Best practices for collaborating with ReqIF between DNG instances
• Configuring Rational Team Concert to establish a global configuration context for work item links
• Delivering across streams in Rational Quality Manager

Engineering Workflow Management

• Using Rational Team Concert for source code management in Jenkins jobs

DOORS Next

• DOORS Next view query practices (UPDATED)

We are always open to ideas on guidance needed.  Better yet, as this is a community of experts, you too can participate in developing and sharing best practices based on your experience.  Check out our community information and contribution guidelines.

Tim Feeney
Executive IT Specialist, Watson IoT Engineering Development