Administering change and releases by using the Configuration Management application

After you install and start the Configuration Management application, you can complete administrative tasks such as creating project areas that control access to configurations.

Before you begin

The Configuration Management application must be installed.

Only one instance of the application can be registered with the Jazz™ Team Server. The version of the Configuration Management application must match the highest version of the lifecycle management products on the Jazz Team Server that use the Configuration Management application for configuration management. To upgrade the Configuration Management application, see the documentation for upgrading the lifecycle management product.

To see which versions are registered with the Jazz Team Server: on the product banner, click the Administration icon (), and then click Jazz Team Server Home > Registered Applications.

You must be logged in to the Jazz Team Server with an account that has Jazz Administrator privileges.

About this task

This content applies to version 4.0.3 or later. You can control access to the resources by setting permissions and completing operations in the project areas in the Configuration Management application. These project areas are used only to manage configuration management permissions; they do not contain resources, and they are separate from the project areas of other lifecycle management products.
Configuration management permissions include the following operations:
  • Creating or modifying (renaming) configurations
  • Modifying the change sets of other team members
  • Archiving or restoring configurations
  • Merging changes
  • Assigning write permissions to specific team areas
For the complete list of permissions, in the Configuration Management application, on the Permissions page of an active project area, in the Operation section, expand Configuration Management.

For information about project areas for a specific lifecycle management project, see the online help for that product.

Procedure

  1. Open the Jazz Team Server Home page. An example of the URL for this page is https://fully_qualified_host_name:9443/jts/admin.
  2. On the Server Administration page, in the Application Administration section, under Configuration Management (/vvc), click Application.
  3. From the Project Areas menu:
    • To create a project area, click Project Area. The project area is used only by the Configuration Management application. A corresponding configuration space is also created automatically.
    • To open an existing project area, select Active Project Areas, then click the project area to update.

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