Re: Automated way to disconnect/stop all running views on a client?

If you are doing this because of introducing new hardware (presumably you 
are migrating your views to a new box), you will need to run endview 
-server anyway ... however, I assume you are trying to ensure the 
end-users do not experience too much difficulty with the switch over, 
hence wanting to end their views?

My advice would be to notify all Windows users and get them to reboot 
their machines before using ClearCase, once the migration is done. Despite 
the ClearCase registry allowing for resources (views and VOBs) to retain 
the same tag if it is moved, I have noticed the Windows clients often 
don't like this (despite the UUID etc remaining consistent). At least with 
a reboot, persistent views and VOBs will restart (I think it's done on the 
basis of tag, so it detects the change).

Joe

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Paul N wrote:

> Thanks :)
> I should have been more clear, in that we store all views on a central view
> server.
>
> I only want to disconnect the view reference on the client machine, but not
> end the processed running on server-side.
>
> Therefore I believe the "cleartool endview <tag>" command would most likely
> be what i'm looking for.
>
> If I could do something like this, it would likely do the trick:
>
> 1. dir/b M:\ > "endviews.bat"
> 2. in "endviews.bat" , add "cleartool endview " at the beginning of each
> line
> 3. run "endviews.bat"
>
> However, it would require each user manually creating and editting the
> batchfile, which is not a good solution :)
>
> tks
>
>
> On 6/8/06, Kathy Messina <Kathy.Messina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  Can't you parse the output of cleartool lsview -host?
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> > *From:* owner-cciug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-cciug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > *On Behalf Of *Paul N
> > *Sent:* Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:59 AM
> > *To:* joe@xxxxxxxxxx
> > *Cc:* CCIUG
> > *Subject:* Re: [cciug] Automated way to disconnect/stop all running views
> > on a client?
> >
> >
> >  hi,
> > I believe this is a manual procedure, as it would require the user to type
> > this command for each view, separately, once they can get the list of the
> > views.
> >
> > I'm trying to find a scripted (or an existing command) method to automate
> > the process.
> > thanks!
> >
> >
> > On 6/8/06, Joe Wildish <joe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > cleartool endview -server <tag> ? Probably needs to be done as a user in
> > > the albd account if you're a windoze shop.
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Paul N wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > Using CC SR5, Win2k - we are migrating to new servers shortly, and
> > > want to
> > > > ensure all users stop their views before-hand.
> > > >
> > > > Is there an easy way (or a script you may have :) that would allow
> > > each user
> > > > to easily stop or disconnect all currently running views on their
> > > client
> > > > hosts?
> > > >
> > > > It would be nice if CC had such a feature built in, but I gather that
> > > is not
> > > > the case :(
> > > >
> > > > thanks!
> > > > --
> > > > --Paul A Nusbaum, CM Tools Admin - Ottawa,ON--
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > --Paul A Nusbaum, CM Tools Admin - Ottawa,ON--
>
>
>
> --
> --Paul A Nusbaum, CM Tools Admin - Ottawa,ON--
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