Enabling the Red Hat Package Management library

To manage and Red Hat Package Management (RPM) packages, you can enable the RPM library in IBM® Rational® Asset Manager. The RPM library is collection of asset types and relationships that can be used with RPM packages.

Before you begin

To enable the RPM library, you must be a repository administrator.

The yum client can integrate with Rational Asset Manager by using the RPM package repository. The yum client is installed by default on typical Linux operating systems. Products must use the following URL: http://username:password@hostname/web services context-root/yum. This URL is the Rational Asset Manager YUM repository. Note that you cannot specify a port number, and you must specify a username and password for authentication.

Procedure

  1. On the Rational Asset Manager web client home page, log on with an account that has master administrative permissions for the repository.
  2. Click Administration.
  3. On the sidebar, click Libraries.
    Important: If the RPM library is already enabled on the server, you cannot import the library again. Continue to the next step.

    If the RPM library was imported but not enabled, in the list of libraries, click the version number of the RPM library. Then, continue to step 7

  4. Click Import Existing Library. The Import Library window opens.
  5. Select Select a built-in library, and then select RPM from the list.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Confirm that the information in the RPM library does not conflict with assets or metadata that are in the repository or that are controlled by other libraries on the page for the RPM library. Then, in the Library Actions sidebar, click Enable. The assets, asset types, and asset attributes for the RPM library are enabled on your repository.
  8. Click Administration to return to the list of communities in the repository.

Results

After you activate the library, the RPM package and RPM capability are available as asset types in your repository.


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