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Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Web
This section discusses how to administer Rational® ClearQuest® Web.
About Rational® ClearQuest® Web server
Rational® ClearQuest® Web server provides server-side support for WAN interfaces to Rational ClearQuest.
Rational® ClearQuest® Web server architecture
Rational® ClearQuest® Web server is implemented as a J2EE application hosted on WebSphere® Application Server.

IBM ClearQuest 10.0.9
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- Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Web
  This section discusses how to administer Rational® ClearQuest® Web.
  - About Rational® ClearQuest® Web server
    Rational® ClearQuest® Web server provides server-side support for WAN interfaces to Rational ClearQuest.
    - Rational® ClearQuest® Web server architecture
      Rational® ClearQuest® Web server is implemented as a J2EE application hosted on WebSphere® Application Server.
    - Configuring Rational® ClearQuest® Web server
      Configure Rational® ClearQuest® Web server by performing the tasks described in this section.
    - Monitoring Rational® ClearQuest® Web server
      There are several ways to determine whether Rational® ClearQuest® Web server is working correctly and troubleshoot issues.
  - Configuring Rational® ClearQuest® Web with the Site Configuration window
    You customize many Rational® ClearQuest® Web server and application settings by using the Site Configuration window.
  - Customizing security
    Rational® ClearQuest® Web provides security that affects only the behavior of the Rational ClearQuest Web application.
  - Rational® ClearQuest® and single sign-on
    You can configure Rational® ClearQuest® for single sign-on with Lightweight Third-Party Authentication (LTPA), OpenID Connect, and Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML2).
  - Configuring strong authentication with smart cards
    Smart card authentication is appropriate for deployments where security requirements dictate stronger authentication than using a Rational® ClearQuest® user name and password.
  - Configuring and maintaining full-text search
    Some administrative tasks are required to configure and maintain the Rational® ClearQuest® full-text search feature.
  - Configuring and customizing the type-ahead feature
    The type-ahead feature enables users to use a choice-list drop-down as a search field to find and select items in the choice-list. This feature must be configured before it can be used. It can also be customized.
  - Configuring e-mail transports
    You can configure Rational® ClearQuest® Web to use either the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) or MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface) mail transport protocol.
  - Configuring integrations for Collaborative Lifecycle Management
    You can configure and use the Rational® ClearQuest® solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) integrations with Rational ClearQuest to connect the work of all team members. The Rational ClearQuest solution for CLM integrations, which are based on Jazz™ technology and the open architecture of Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC), include IBM® Rational Team Concert™, IBM Rational Quality Manager, and IBM Rational DOORS® Next Generation. Collaborative Lifecycle Management integrations with Rational ClearQuest Web are also referred to as the Rational ClearQuest Bridge.
  - Managing OSLC integrations in a load-balanced deployment
    By default, Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) configuration settings for Rational® ClearQuest® are stored in files on the server. In a load-balanced environment, you can store these settings as master properties in the schema repository for shared use by all the servers in the deployment.
  - Using Rational® ClearQuest® to prefill OSLC 2.0-linked records
    You can configure Rational® ClearQuest® to prefill field values when opening the creation dialogs for associated OSLC 2.0 projects. When a creation dialog displays, values for designated fields in the new record are initialized using content from configured fields of the initiating Rational ClearQuest record.
- Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Multisite
  Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Multisite
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You can integrate Rational® ClearQuest® with other software by adding packages to existing schema.
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Rational® ClearQuest® Web server architecture

Rational® ClearQuest® Web server is implemented as a J2EE application hosted on WebSphere® Application Server.

Each WebSphere® Application Server instance includes an application called TeamEAR. The Rational® ClearQuest® Web server architecture also has an RPC server layer to communicate with the Rational® ClearQuest® database.

The Rational® ClearQuest® Web server architecture comprises several tiers:

Web and application tiers. These tiers are a Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application hosted in a WebSphere® Application Server instance.
- Components in the web container provide Rational® ClearQuest® Web functionality, an interface to the Rational® ClearQuest® OSLC API, and web services for implementing the Rational® ClearQuest® CM API network interface that is used by the DevOps Code ClearCase® Remote Client (CCRC) and other IBM® features and products.
- Components in the EJB (Enterprise Java™ Bean) container convert the web services and methods interfaces to the object-oriented proxy classes and allow the Java™ Management Extensions (JMX) MBean servers to query and set configuration parameters.
- Components in the Java™ 2 Connector (J2C) adapter layer use the J2EE connector technology to link back-end Rational® ClearQuest® remote procedure call (RPC) server processes to Rational® ClearQuest® Web stack EJB code.
Data tier. Access to Rational® ClearQuest® repositories is by RPC interfaces to back-end server processes that are integrated into the WebSphere® Application Server framework as J2C resources.

The following figure shows the major components of the Rational® ClearQuest® Web client and server architecture.

This image illustrates the major components of the ClearQuest Web server architecture.