Chapter 1 • Installing Quality Center Synchronizer
The Synchronizer contains the following components:
➤Quality Center Synchronizer Client. Displays current links, and provides a user interface for the user to create and manage links, and run link tasks. Sends requests from the user to the Synchronizer server. Communicates with the Quality Center Synchronizer server using the SOAP protocol over HTTP.
➤Quality Center Synchronizer Server. Synchronizes data between Quality Center and other applications. Manages synchronization and communication between endpoints, and retrieves and stores information in an integrated database. In addition, the server manages connections to link endpoints using the endpoints’ application programming interface (API), which must be installed on the server machine.
The client and server components can reside on the same machine or on separate machines.
When you install the Synchronizer server, the PostgreSQL 8.3 database management system is also installed. Link data is stored in a database that is created in PostgreSQL during the installation process. For example, the database stores identity mappings between records in each endpoint of a link by storing the unique IDs of corresponding records in a database table.
System ConfigurationsThis section describes the minimum server and client system configurations for installing the Quality Center Synchronizer, as well as the supported endpoints.
This section includes:
➤“Server System Configurations” on page 13
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