Our CA Harvest admin has created a new harvest server. Currently both the old and new harvest servers are pointed to the same database repository. This is just a lateral move to a new server OS.
Our developers use the CA SCM Eclipse Plug-in to check out/check in code to their workspace.
Currently they all have a broker connection pointing to the old harvest server.
All of their eclipse workspace projects therefore point to that specific broker connection.
Example: my-project (my-broker-name:code-repository-name)
Is there a way to change the broker connection within the CA SCM Eclipse Plug-in to point to the new harvest server name without requiring everyone to delete all of their projects, create a new broker connection for the new harvest server, then add all of the projects back to their workspace?
We've tried right-clicking on Properties within the CA SCM view of Eclipse on the active broker, but the "Broker Connection Properties" tab only shows the user name and a button to "Clear Password". Similarly other tabs do not allow for the changing of any connection settings. We've tried this in versions 12.0 and 12.5 of the CA SCM Eclipse Plug-in.
We've also tried editing the Windows hosts file to point the DNS name for the old server to the IP address of the new server, but this does not seem to work either. An error pops up saying that the connection to broker, my-broker-name, is no longer valid.
Doing a Team->Disconnect Project and then a Team->Reconnect Project only reconnects back to the old broker name.
Surely there must be some way to modify the server address of an existing broker connection without requiring everyone to delete and re-add their entire workspace?
Note: Our harvest servers are also using Active Directory authentication. I did see a note here: Change Broker Connection Properties
Which said, "Note: When External Authentication is active, the Properties dialog will not have a Change Password button and passwords cannot be changed from the CA Harvest SCM Plug-In for Eclipse."
That was on the help tab for "Change Broker Connection Properties". So maybe for some reason since we have Active Directory authentication enabled, we cannot change the broker connection properties once the broker connection has been created within Eclipse?
Message was edited by: Brad Fowler Added Note regarding Active Directory authentication setting.