Understanding Site Administration

As an ALM site administrator, you create and maintain projects, users, and servers using Site Administration.

ALM Editions: Some functionality in Site Administration is unavailable for some editions. This includes the following:

  • ALM template projects are not available for Quality Center Enterprise Edition.

  • Functionality related to project planning and tracking is available for ALM Edition only.

    • For more information about ALM editions and their functionality, see the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management User Guide: ALM Editions.


Site Administration includes the following:

The masthead includes options you can use throughout Site Administration.

Option

Description

Tools

Includes commands that you can run from any location in Site Administration. For details, see Tools Menu.

Help

Enables you to open the Application Lifecycle Management Help and other additional online resources.

To display version information for each ALM client component, select Help. Details appear on the right side of the window that is displayed.

Tip: To customize the Help menu, refer to the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management Installation and Upgrade Guide.

Site Administrator: <user>

The current Site Administrator user.


Logout. Logs you out of Site Administration.

Note: When ALM is accessed via an external authentication mode, you cannot log out using this button. To log out, you must close the client browser.

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The Tools menu, located on the masthead, contains the following options:

Option

Description

Collect Information

Creates the ALM_CollectedInfo_<number>.html file. This file contains diagnostic information about the ALM system. It is useful for when you contact ALM support. The ALM_CollectedInfo_<number>.html file is stored in the temp folder on the ALM server machine. To determine the folder location, open the Site Administration log file and locate the java.io.tmpdir field.

Repository Migration Status

Displays the status of project migration to the optimized project repository. For details, see Migrating the Repository.
Set Project Upgrade Priorities Enables you to set priorities before upgrading projects to new minor-minor versions. For information, see About Upgrading Projects for Minor-Minor Versions.

Update Test Types

Updates custom test type definitions in active projects. This is required after registering custom test types with ALM. If your site contains many active projects, this may take some time. For details, refer to the Micro Focus Custom Test Types Guide.

Note: When you activate a project, custom test type definitions are updated automatically.

ALM Assessment

Collects environment details to assess the current ALM deployment and recommend usage improvements. For details, see ALM Advisor.
Global Search

Enables Global Search to allow users to search for data on projects. For details, see Global Search.

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Site Administration contains the following tabs:

Tab

Description

Site Projects

Manage your ALM projects and templates. This includes adding new domains and projects, enabling extensions for projects, querying project data, restoring projects, renaming projects, and activating or deactivating projects. For details, see Managing Projects.

You can also upgrade projects from a previous Quality Center version to the current ALM version. For details, see Upgrading Projects to a New Version.

Lab Management

Manage the LAB_PROJECT details and define Lab Management administrators.

For details, refer to the Micro Focus ALM Lab Management Guide: Lab Management Tab.

Site Users

Add new users and define user properties, including changing passwords. For details, see Managing ALM Users.

You can also define site administrators. For details, see Defining Site Administrators.

Site Connections

Monitor the users currently connected to an ALM server. For details, see Managing User Connections and Licenses.

Licenses

Monitor the total number of ALM licenses in use and to modify the license key. For details, see Managing User Connections and Licenses.

Servers

Modify ALM server information, such as the log file. For details, see Configuring Servers and Parameters.

DB Servers

Manage your database servers. This includes adding a new database server, editing a database's connection string, and changing a database's default administrator user name and password. For details, see Configuring Servers and Parameters.

Site Configuration

Modify ALM configuration parameters, such as the mail protocol. For details, see Configuring Servers and Parameters.

Site Analysis

Monitor the number of licensed ALM users connected to your projects at specific points over a period of time. For details, see Analyzing Site Usage.

Project Planning and Tracking

Schedule project planning and tracking calculations for an ALM site. For details, see Scheduling Calculations for Project Planning and Tracking (PPT).

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