Friends (Outbound)

The Friends (Outbound) menu item is used to register the applications that provide OSLC services to be consumed from IBM® Rational® Focal Point™. The Friends (Outbound) menu item lists all of the OSLC applications that provide services for IBM Rational Focal Point to consume.

Friends (Outbound) menu in IBM Rational Focal Point

Note:

The consumer secret and consumer key must be created in the OSLC application, to add that application as a friend in IBM Rational Focal Point. After creating a new consumer key for IBM Rational Focal Point in the OSLC application, take a note of the Root services URI, consumer key, and consumer secret.

Log in as a user with administrator rights to configure integration in IBM Rational Focal Point, and from the navigation bar, click Application > Friends(Outbound). You can add, modify, or delete a friend.

Table 1. User interface elements on the Friends (Outbound) page
Field Description
Add Friend Icon. To open the Add Friend window, click the icon.
Name

Input field. Specify a name for the connection. For example: RTC1@example.com or RRC1@example.com.

Root services URI

Input field. Specify the application root services URI.

To connect to the Change and Configuration Management application, version 2 (all releases), specify https://hostname:portnumber/jazz/rootservices

To connect to the Change and Configuration Management application, version 3 (all releases), specify https://hostname:portnumber/ccm/rootservices

To connect to the Requirements Management application, version 3 (all releases), specify https://hostname:portnumber/rm/rootservices

Authentication Type List of possible authentication types. Select Oauth.
Consumer Key Input field. Specify the consumer key created for IBM Rational Focal Point in the OSLC application. The consumer key is formatted like this example: 670db08a94654b559ae87545a8ac5715.
Consumer Secret Input field. Specify the consumer secret created for IBM Rational Focal Point in the OSLC application.
Test Connection Push button to test the connection. The results of the test are displayed in the Add OAuth Friend window.
Note: The first time that you test the connection, you must log in to the CLM application.
Save Push button to save the details. Click Save to add the friend.
Note: To modify a friend listed in the Server Friends List window, click the name of the friend, and make the required changes.
Delete Icon. To delete a friend listed in the Server Friends List window, click this icon.

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