Configuring version control

You can change the version control configuration at any time after you have installed Netcool®/Impact.

Use the command line service on the secondary server to update the configuration in the version control properties file, $IMPACT_HOME/etc/server_versioncontrol.props. The server part, is the name of the instance of the Impact Server.

The following table shows the version control configuration properties.

Table 1. Version Control Configuration Properties

Property

Description

impact.versioncontrol.class

Class name for the version control system to use.

impact.versioncontrol.debug

Reserved for internal use.

impact.versioncontrol.default.user

Name of the default username used for locking the file in SVN (Subversion).

The default value for this property is impactadmin. If the Impact administrator is not impactadmin, you should update this property to reflect the actual Impact administrator user.

impact.versioncontrol.path

Path to the version control executable (CVS only)

impact.versioncontrol.repository

Location of the version control archive (CVS only)