Searching for assets in the DevOps view

Use the DevOps view to search for assets such as deliverables, packages, and environments. Additional information and functionality is available on the search results page when you search in the DevOps view.

Before you begin

Before you can use the DevOps view, a repository administrator must enable the DevOps library. To learn more about enabling the DevOps library, see Enabling the DevOps library.

About this task

Typically, when searching for DevOps assets, you use a keyword search and filters. To learn more about keyword searching, see Searching for assets. The Type filters available in the DevOps view are Component, Package, and Environment. You can also use the State and Community filters in the main DevOps view. As you drill down while searching for a particular DevOps asset type, other filters are available. To learn more about using filters in searches, see Finding assets with filters.
Component
A component is an asset that represents a complete deliverable. A component is made up of binary packages, installation packages, and documentation packages. The packages that make up a component are separate assets that are related to the component asset. Even though the packages are separate assets, you can work with the packages that make up a component in the DevOps search view or in the Content section of the General Details view of the asset.
Package
Packages can be binaries, installation files, or documentation. For example, Ruby gems and RPM files are packages.
Environment
An environment is a snapshot that represents a deployable set of specific packages or build outputs.

Procedure

  1. In the IBM Rational Asset Manager web client, click Assets.

    Assets tab

  2. Under the search field, for the Search Type select DevOps.
  3. Type keywords into the search field; then, click Search for assets Search for assets icon. Results for your search query are displayed.
  4. Optional: To filter your search results using filters, in the sidebar, click the name of a filter. As you click filters or tags, the results will update. For example, if you click the Environment filter, the results will show only environment assets.
  5. Click the plus sign (+) next to an entry in the search results to expand the entry and to see information related to the asset. For example, when you expand a deliverable in the search results, information about the deliverable asset and the related packages is displayed in tree format. You can hover your mouse over assets to download them or mount them using NFS. You can expand the tree view and download a particular file contained by a package.

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