Administrative utilities, tools, and scripts

This page describes and links to more information about useful utilities, tools, and scripts for Jazz administrators and Jazz users. The tools are provided on an "as-is" basis.

Administrator utilities

These utilities, tools, and scripts are intended to ease administrative tasks.

• JazzMon - JazzMon is a new tool that you can use to make more sense out of Jazz server traffic patterns based on web service reports. Also, check out the FAQ for JazzMon, where you can download the utility.
• Automation server - This blog article describes the process of creating an automation server, which can complete the automation tasks that you might need for your CLM implementation. The automation server was originally created as a performance improvement to automate the insertion of comments into a work item from the command line.
• Sample upgrade scripts - These scripts are based on scripts that are used to upgrade Jazz.net and Rational functional verification test environments.

Reporting utilities

These utilities, tools, and scripts are intended to provide simple reports for various Jazz administrative needs.

• Simple baseline diff tool - This blog post by DanToczala has a simple baseline diff tool for generating release notes. The tool is unsupported.
• Listing project area membership in Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager - This paper, written by Carl Girourd, describes how to list a set of users that have membership to a project area in an easily consumable format. The procedure in this paper is unsupported.

How are my project areas configured?

You want a list of how your projects are organized, and everything inside of them. How do you do it? In the Eclipse client, open the Team Organization view, right-click a project area, and click Generate Runtime Report. A .zip file is exported that contains the project and team area hierarchy, member assignments, and the process XML configuration. However, the .zip file does not contain the work item categories ("filed against" values). This technique is useful for assessing how your project is organized.

Miscellaneous utilities

These utilities, tools, and scripts do not easily fit into one of the other categories.

• Workflow Visualizer - This blog contains a workflow visualizer, which takes the Process XML from Rational Team Concert as an input, and produces simple images of the workflow for the various work item types. The workflow visualizer is unsupported.

Related topics: None

External links:

• Ralph Schoon Blog

Additional contributors: None