Use the application administration interface to establish
friend relationships between Requirements Management, Change and Configuration
Management, and HP ALM. Use this procedure to add the location information
for the adapter application, and send a request to the adapter friend
application.
Before you begin
An access request from the adapter is approved.
About this task
You add a friend relationship to the HP ALM server.
Procedure
- Point your browser to one of the following URLs that use
the default context root values:
- https://fully qualified hostname:port/rm/admin.
Log in to the Rational® Requirements
Composer server by using an account that has administrator privileges.
- https://fully qualified hostname:port/ccm/admin
Log in to the Rational Team Concert™ server by using an account that has administrator
privileges.
- On the Application Administration page,
click Friends (Outbound). The Friends page
opens.
- At the Friends List, click Add. The Add Friend window opens.
- For Name, type the name that you
want to use to identify the HP ALM friend application.
For
example, HPALM server
- For Root Services URI, type the
uniform resource identifier for the HP ALM server. To find
the URI, click the Help icon in the Rational Adapter for HP ALM
banner.
- In the OAuth Secret and Re-type
Secret fields, enter an OAuth secret code phrase to associate
with the new OAuth consumer key. This string can contain one or more
words and special characters, and cannot exceed 50 characters. This
string is never displayed in the user interface, and you do not enter
this string again. This string, also called an OAuth consumer secret,
acts as a password to access the friend server.
- Select the Trusted check box. Trusted consumers can share authorization with other trusted
consumers and do not require user approval to access data.
- Click Create Friend. A confirmation
message opens. Click Next to continue.
- Click the link Grant access for the provisional
key. You might not have administrator permissions on the
targeted application server. Work with a member of that administrator
group to get approval for provisional OAuth consumer keys.
- In the Authorize Provisional Key window,
click Approve and Finish.
- To verify that the friends list is configured correctly,
you can enter the following URLs:
- https://fully qualified hostname:port/rm/friends
- https://fully qualified hostname:port/ccm/friends
Each URL opens an XML document with an entry
that is similar to the following example. The entries can vary, depending
on which friends were added:<jd:Friend>
<jfs:internal>false</jfs:internal>
<jd:rootServices rdf:resource="https://host-name:9443/rm/rootservices"/>
<dc:title>Requirements Management (/rm)</dc:title>
</jd:Friend>
<jd:Friend>
<jfs:internal>false</jfs:internal>
<jd:rootServices rdf:resource="https://host-name:8443/hpqm/rootservices"/>
<dc:title>Rational Adapter for HP ALM (host-name:8443)</dc:title>
</jd:Friend>
Results
A friend request exists between a Change and Configuration
Management application, a Requirements Management application, and
the adapter.
What to do next
Associate project areas so team members can link the artifacts
in the applications on servers that you just created a friend relationship
with, see Linking between HP ALM projects and CLM project areas.