Archive for the ‘VOBs maintenance’ Category

Today we are releasing the newest version, 1.6.1, of our performance monitoring tool. This version comes after we released version 1.6 about 3 weeks ago, and it contains some improvements we made after we collected feedback from our users. See the dashboard: As a reminder, we offer both Free Edition and Pro Edition, and you […]

Tel Aviv, Israel – June 28, 2016 –  IBM Champion ALMtoolbox, Inc., a firm with offices in the United States and Israel, today announced availability of a free Community edition product called ALM Performance, based upon ALM Performance Pro, their award-winning environment monitoring commercial solution. The Community edition of ALM Performance provides a comprehensive set […]

We are happy to announce the new release of ALM Performance v1.6, our monitoring and alerting tool for Jenkins, ClearCase, ClearQuest. Since the release of the previous release (v1.5) a month ago, we have received and incorporated feedback from many of our users and we have tried to address all of needs with this latest version. This […]

This time I’d like to share some insights we observed when we helped our first users to install our monitoring & alerting tool for ClearCase, Jenkins and ClearQuest. A threshold is the point at which your system begins to experience difficulties. For example: high memory usage in your Jenkins master or a low number of […]

We at ALMtoolbox spend a great portion of our time talking and understanding our customer’s pains. One of the most painful issues ClearCase & ClearQuest administrators raise is that they cannot control all of the parts of their environment if they are not part of the IT team. As a result the administrator may not […]

It has been 6 weeks since we released the first version of ALM Vitality, so now is a good time to share a few insights we’ve received from our ALM Vitality users. We will also share what is new in ALM Vitality and show how you can benefit from the application growth. Here is the […]

I’m happy to update you about a new service for administrators and a new add-on tool for developers and DevOps folks using ClearCase that we are offering. New Service: Health Checks for ClearCase VOBs We now offer a new service based on our unique “ClearCheck” add-on tool for ClearCase. ClearCheck scans ClearCase VOB servers, runs […]

ClearCheck 2.9.7, our comprehensive health checks monitoring tool for ClearCase, is out! For this release, we updated the internal knowledge base used to detect errors within ClearCase VOBs, and we also fixed some bugs with the ClearCheck software (click here to see an example of the nightly report generated by ClearCheck). Fixed issues: We fixed […]

As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, we’ve released updated versions of our shipping products (ClearCheck 2.9.5). ClearCheck provides comprehensive and continuous health checks for ClearCase VOBs and environments, contributing to business continuity and risk mitigation. Even if you use ClearCase to maintain old \legacy projects, IBM still says that you must ensure that […]

We just released the latest version of our health checks solution for ClearCase. ClearCheck helps you to apply best practices and to implement IBM recommendations which ensure that the data stored in ClearCase is continuously valid, healthy and not corrupted. ClearCheck scans for, analyzes and reports on problems that can arise in ClearCase infrastructures, including […]

It’s been a long time since we released our last newsletter… Wait no longer – here is our latest newspaper! This year was very busy and exciting for us. New releases, new customers and new ClearCase and SCM, DevOps and ALM challenges we resolved. I visited customers in Germany, US (4 different states), Canada and […]

We are happy to announce the addition of four great new features which further enhance convenience and flexibility, resulting in a more robust solution that provides peace of mind with regard to the health of your ClearCase VOB servers. NEW consolidation: Scan all VOB servers simultaneously and get ONE integrated health status report for all […]

ClearCheck scans, analyzes and reports the health status of your VOB servers. It applies best practices as recommended by IBM Rational and our field experience. The new version provides greater proactivity and a more accurate report. What’s new in version 2.5? Improved report interface: more information has now been organized into tables. We have also […]

The new release of ClearCheck continues to provide preventive maintenance and on-going maintenance for ClearCase vob servers and ClearCase environments. Performance improvements:  Reducing amount of memory consumed when generating reports Reduced time to locate all views on VOB server (necessary for ClearCase checkvob subcommand) New Functionality when generating health reports: Send email with link to […]

“With ClearCheck we have an ongoing assurance that our ClearCase environment and VOBs are working properly. Instead of occasional manual checking which cost us money and added one more task to a busy schedule, we now get notice if there is a problem and exactly what it is. ClearCheck has made my job much easier.”  […]