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Question
Is there a utility available that will test connectivity between IBM® Rational® ClearCase® servers in environments where very few ports are open and ping may be disabled?
Cause
This may become necessary in a situation where there is a need to determine if certain MultiSite® features will work or to troubleshoot network problems affecting ClearCase.
Answer
Use the ClearCase utility albd_list to determine connectivity between two ClearCase or MultiSite servers where other utilities may be disabled due to security policies.
By specifying the host name or IP address of the remote server, ClearCase will attempt to contact the remote host through port 371.
Successful Connect Example:
%>albd_list server1
albd_server addr = 10.65.10.36, port= 371
PID 152:
credmap_server, udp socket 2303: version 1; BUSY
Albd_list complete
Note: The path to the albd_list utility in this example is in the system path which allows it to be called directly.
If instead, you see an error returned, one of the following is true:
- The remote server may not be accessible through the network
- The remote server is not running ClearCase
- The remote server is down.
Failed Connect Example:
%>albd_list server2
albd_contact call failed: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = [WINSOCK] Connection reset by peer
noname: Error: Unable to contact albd_server on host 'server1'
cannot contact albd
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16 June 2018
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