Help Using BuildForge with RTC 4.0.6
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We have already deployed RTC 4.0.6 (on RHEL 6.3 and DB2 20.1) and need to enable automatic build and deploy for some projects. For this purpose we have decided to use BuildForge (7.1.3.4), since the organization where we're working already had it. On overall .... we couldn't make it work. Ahead I'm giving more context on what we did, in case anyone could give us any advice. - Both (RTC and BF) authenticate users with LDAP. However on BuildForge we had to create a user within the application, because for some reason we couldn´t use the BF LDAP user with the RTC build engine (with the non-ldap user, worked perfectly) - We configured the integration using this article (https://jazz.net/library/article/607). It's for an older version of RTC, but it was the most comprehensive guide we could find. - The steps followed were: 1.- We configured the testing project JUnit, and started the execution on BuildForge. First step seems successfully executed, but the second failed because it couldn't find the source code to build using the ant script. 2.- We checked the file JazzJBE.xml to understand why the source code isn't extracted from RTC, but couldn't identify which part of this file commands the source code extraction. 3.- When we tried to run the project again, BuildForge couldn’t find the adapter. 4.- Was applied a reset over the template adapter (ass suggested on one topic in the jazz forum). 5.- We tried to run again the project, however the buildforge job got stuck on starting state, without any change. Investigating we discovered that buildforge engine stopped. 6.- Since then each time we launch the job, trying to create a build from RTC, the buildforge engine stops and we must start it all over again. Our main concern is to understand why the buildforge engine stops. Then we need to understand why (for the only time it worked) we couldn’t get the source code. And finally, we are worried about the problem related to the BuildForge LDAP user, which cannot be used within the RTC build engine. This user was used within BuildForge without problem, so shouldn’t be a permissions problem, Thanks in advance! |
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Using a LDAP user for the engine is not recommended. That user will be locked out of the Build Forge console while the RTC integration is in use. And if the password expires, the user will likely be locked out immediately, causing an outage. It is safer to go with a local BF user. However if you absolutely must, remember to use the domain of the user in bf like so DOMAIN\user when setting up the LDAP user in RTC.
As far as the engine stopping, what does the catalina.log show for Build Forge?
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