Taldor / ClearCheck over IBM Rational ClearCase
“Thanks to GoMidjets ClearCheck, I now enjoy peace-of-mind in knowing that my VOB databases are healthy, and if something is wrong, I’ll know about it straight away” says Yaron Norani, Chief of Configuration Management (CM) at Taldor. The company is one of the leading providers of business and technological solutions in Israel (TASE: TALD) and Yaron handles CM for a major defense customer.
The problem
Yaron looks after hundreds of users for his customer. He is responsible for dozens of ClearCase projects, hundreds of VOB databases, Base ClearCase and UCM ClearCase, based on IBM servers running UNIX AIX on the PowerPC platform.
“Before using ClearCheck, we rarely checked our database - probably no more than twice a year”, he admits.
“One day we had some very serious problems with some of our most important VOBs” he added. “Unfortunately, one of them was a PVOB (a project VOB), which affects other VOB databases. Since then, we set out to acquire a smart turnkey solution to help us do the daily checking of our environments' health, and at the same time, contribute to our enterprise compliance, governance and risk reduction requirements".
The solution and benefits
Yaron decided to try GoMidjets ClearCheck, and had it up and running after just a few minutes of simple customization.
“We have many multi-platformed (interoperability) and complex environments, including Windows, UNIX and NAS filers (NetApp). GoMidjets ClearCheck seamlessly and automatically integrated with our servers and filers, and from that moment on has been taking care of them”, says Yaron. He adds, “It has been working very well”.
“Now, we have a daily check, including dbcheck and checkvob. These checks scan my important data, immediately recognize problems or errors, and also suggest solutions. This helps me guide IBM technical support, whenever I need to consult them".
Yaron concludes, “Since starting to use GoMidjets ClearCheck I feel far more secure against contingencies. I recommend it to any organization which uses IBM Rational ClearCase!”
