New ITS Connection Dialog Box

You use the New ITS Connection dialog box to specify the connection settings for your issue tracking system’s server. The fields in the dialog box vary based on the ITS you selected when creating the configuration.

Fields

Connection Settings

Field	Description
Protocol	JIRA and OpenText Application Quality Management only: Lets you specify whether you connect to the JIRA server using the http or https protocol.
Host	The name of the machine hosting your ITS server. localhost, for example.
Port	The port used to connect to your ITS server.
Username	The name of the AccuSync user. See Create the AccuSync User.
Password	The password associated AccuSync user.
Domain	OpenText Application Quality Management only: The domain associated with the projects you want to synchronize with AccuWork.
Project	OpenText Application Quality Management only: The project you want to synchronize with AccuWork.

Advanced Settings

Field	Description
Email suffix	The domain name typically associated with email addresses for your ITS users. AccuSync appends the email suffix to the AccuWork user name when AccuWork users are created in your ITS.
JIRA Path	JIRA only: By default, JIRA is installed to host_name:port_number/secure/ Dashboard.jspa (http://localhost:8086/secure/Dashboard.jspa, for example). You use the JIRA Path field to specify an alternate location on the host machine; AccuSync uses the Host and Port values to build the complete URL. For example, if you installed JIRA Path in a folder called /its_jira, you would enter its_jira in the JIRA Path field. AccuSync would construct the following URL to access the JIRA server: http://localhost:8086/its_jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa.

Field

Description

Email suffix

The domain name typically associated with email addresses for your ITS users. AccuSync appends the email suffix to the AccuWork user name when AccuWork users are created in your ITS.

JIRA Path

JIRA only: By default, JIRA is installed to host_name:port_number/secure/ Dashboard.jspa (http://localhost:8086/secure/Dashboard.jspa, for example). You use the JIRA Path field to specify an alternate location on the host machine; AccuSync uses the Host and Port values to build the complete URL. For example, if you installed JIRA Path in a folder called /its_jira, you would enter its_jira in the JIRA Path field. AccuSync would construct the following URL to access the JIRA server: http://localhost:8086/its_jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa.

Proxy Settings

Field	Description
Proxy Settings	Host, Port, Username, and Password fields that you need to specify only if you connect to the Internet using a proxy server.

After you test the connection, AccuSync displays additional fields on the New ITS Connection dialog box. Again, the fields in the dialog box vary based on the ITS you selected when creating the configuration.

Note: No fields are added to the New ITS Connection dialog box after you test the connection.

IBM Rational ClearQuest Fields

Field	Description
DB Name	The name of ClearQuest database.
Repository	The name of the ClearQuest repository.

OpenText Application Quality Management Fields

Field	Description
DB Name	The name of the OpenText Application Quality Management database.
DB Host	The name of the server hosting the database.
DB Port	The port number of the database server.
DB Username	The user name for the user accessing the database.
DB Password	The user’s password.

JIRA Fields

Field	Description
Project Name	Lets you select the JIRA projects you want to synchronize with AccuWork.

For more information, see Creating the AccuWork and ITS Connections and Creating a New Configuration.