Integrating with NFS clients

You can access assets stored on a Rational® Asset Manager server from an NFS client.

Before you begin

The NFS server bundled with Rational Asset Manager must be installed and configured by the repository administrator. To learn how install and configure the NFS server, see Configuring NFS support.

Procedure

  1. Get a token from the Rational Asset Manager server by browsing to http://server/context_root/accessToken, where server is the server running Rational Asset Managerand context_root is the context root for the Rational Asset Manager web client, typically ram. The token is valid for 24 hours. Tokens are unique and user-specific. The token is returned in XML format. The element of the XML file that contains the actual token is called token.
  2. Copy the contents of the token element from the web browser, so that you can use the token in the NFS mount command.
  3. On the computer running the NFS client, issue the following command: mount NFS_server:token/asset/GUID/version local_directory, where:
    Option Description
    NFS_server The IP address or fully-qualified host name of the NFS server.
    token The contents of the token element obtained in step 1.
    GUID The Unique ID of the Rational Asset Manager asset to mount.
    version The version of the Rational Asset Manager asset to mount.
    local_directory The mount point on the NFS client. For example, /temp.
    If the operating system on the computer running the NFS client is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or later, issue the following command: mount -t nfs -o nfsvers=2 NFS_server:token/asset/GUID/version local_directory.

Results

You can now install or extract the asset stored in Rational Asset Manager on the computer running the NFS client.
Note: NFS access is read-only. You cannot make changes to a mounted asset in Rational Asset Manager from an NFS client. Also, you cannot make changes to file systems exported from the NFS server.

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