The Seapine View

Active Directory integration allows you to streamline the management of users by allowing users to use their domain credentials to log in to Seapine ALM and passing the management of credentials to Active Directory. The integration is configured using the Seapine License Server Admin Utility. New users are retrieved from the Active Directory server and existing users are associated with their Active Directory counterpart.

Through the years working as a consultant, I have developed a set of common best practices that I’d like to share:

Consider Multiple Connections

Depending on the structure of your Active Directory tree, you may want to consider creating multiple connections. If the only way to query all the users is to point your connection to the root of the tree, you may want to consider creating a connection for each leaf. If your connection is pointing to the root of the tree, it will waste too much time querying leafs that contain printers, computers, and other resources that you don’t need.

Continue reading…

The TestTrack Server, Surround SCM Server, and Seapine License Server are all typically installed behind one or more corporate firewalls, which protect your data from the outside world. If that’s not the case for you, or you simply need another layer of security, you should enable encryption on server-to-server and client-to-server communications to better protect your data. Following is a brief overview of how to enable encryption for each of the servers. Read the Seapine product documentation for a more thorough explanation.

Continue reading…

When you’re ready to set up Surround SCM in your production environment or want to share your Surround SCM evaluation with your team, enabling access for new users is straightforward. This video provides a step-by-step walk-through for the various ways you can manage your Surround SCM user accounts. You’ll learn how to:

1. Create users through the Seapine License Server.
2. Integrate your LDAP server with the Seapine License Server.
3. Add users in the Surround SCM client.

Continue reading…

With Seapine License Server 2010.1.1 and later, you can configure license pools to manage access to floating licenses.  This gives you the ability to maximize use and distribute floating licenses across business units, divisions, or geographic locations. It can also help ensure that specific users, such as developers or testers, always have access to a license.

Continue reading…