The function that this topic describes might
not be available, depending on how lab management permissions and
client access licenses have been defined for your user account. You must be integrated with external
provider applications that have inventory capability (for example,
IBM® Rational® Build Forge® or IBM Tivoli® products
such as Tivoli Application
Dependency Discovery Manager and Tivoli Provisioning
Manager), you can update lab resource data to display the latest lab
resource configurations and new lab resources that have been added.
Before you begin
You must have an
external provider application with inventory
capability installed.
About this task
To update lab resource data:
Procedure
- Point to Lab Management (
), and click All
Inventory History. The All Inventory History editor opens.
- Click Synchronize. This synchronizes
the IBM Rational Quality Manager lab resource database with the database of
the configured inventory provider.
- Click Discover to
update the lab
resource data with the latest configurations for each lab resource. The discovery operation can run for a long time, depending on
the provider system and the number of lab resources it manages.
- Click a lab resource to display detailed lab resource
information.
Results
If a lab resource has been
recently added to the database,
the status is
New Asset. If the configuration
of the lab resource has changed since you last viewed it, the status
is
Asset updated.