Adding Plugin Configurations

Plugin configurations provide connection information, product-specific details, and filters telling the plugin what data to obtain from the integrating product. You may use multiple configurations to point to different systems or projects, to use different versions of an integrating product or plugin, or to use different filters.

Before you can use a plugin, you must at minimum update it with your specific connection information for the configuration. Each of the plugin configurations in the default implementation have example values, but you'll need to update these according to your own implementation.

If you are using one of the plugins with example configurations, you can update the example configurations with your connection information and other details or you can add new configurations.

Important: The Release Control Administration options can be performed only by users with Managed Administrator privileges.

To add a plugin configuration:

In your Web browser, enter the URL for Release Control Administration. For example:
http://serverName/workcenter/tmtrack.dll?StdPage&Template=rlc/admin

Tip: The link for your installation is in SBM Configurator on the Release Control page.
Select the Configurations tab.
To create a configuration from an existing base:
1. Click the + beside the base that you want to use to create the configuration.
2. Give a unique title and description for the configuration.
  Tip: The configuration title is the name that appears in the drop-down selection when adding requests, deployment units, and deployment tasks. Consider including the server name if you have configurations for multiple servers. You may also want to include integrating product version, plugin version, or other distinguishing information.
3. In the Plugin Instance field, select the name of the plugin you want to use for this instance .
4. In the Type Name field, select the specific implementation of the provider type that you want to use.
5. In the Base Configuration field, select the base that you want to use for this configuration.
  Tip: Select New to create a new base configuration as you create the configuration instead of using an existing configuration. See Adding Base Configurations.
6. Fill out the fields presented in the user interface.
7. To enter different information in any grayed out fields, select Override.

For field descriptions, see the details for your plugin configuration:

Adding Plugin Configurations

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