Borland^® Gauntlet™ 2007 Release Notes
Version 1.1

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System Requirements/Prerequisites

Following are the system requirements for installing and running Gauntlet.

Hardware Recommendation

Note: The build requirements of the applications you develop can create additional hardware requirements.

Gauntlet Server Disk Space

Disk space requirements for a Gauntlet server vary significantly based on the following:

• Frequency and size of builds
• Amount of source code
• Resources for managed applications
• Frequency of revisions to source code

See the Help topic titled Build Output for information about setting disk space limits.

Supported Operating Systems and JDKs

• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (32-bit version)
• Microsoft® Windows® 2003 Server (32-bit version)
• RedHat® Linux version 4, kernel 2.6.9-34 (32-bit version), with libldap-2.2.so.7
• Sun Microsystems Java SE Development Kit 1.5, Update 8 (jdk-1_5_0_08) or later, or Java SE Development Kit 1.6.

Supported Versions of Plug-in Tools

For a list of supported plug-tools, visit http://support.borland.com/entry.jspa?externalID=6473&categoryID=478.

Java Tools

Gauntlet 2007 ships with JUnit 4.1 and Ant 1.7.

Tips for Optimizing and Tuning Your Gauntlet Installation

The following are tips that can help you maintain the efficiency of your Gauntlet installation.

• Monitor your disk space usage periodically to be sure you have adequate space. You can set size limits for saved data on each repository to help control disk space usage.
• For optimal performance, do not run a virus scanner on the Gauntlet server.
• For optimal performance, move your Gauntlet_storage directory to a separate physical disk from the Gauntlet installation.
• Gauntlet uses Subversion hook logic. If your site has an existing Subversion installation and you replay your data into Gauntlet, the Gauntlet hooks are used. This means that any custom Subversion hook logic you created will no longer be used.
• Gauntlet maintains an access file for its Subversion instance. If your site has an existing Subversion installation and you replay your data into Gauntlet, you must enter your users in the Gauntlet interface so Gauntlet is aware of them.

Known Issues

The following are known issues in Gauntlet.

• When you perform a backup on a Windows platform, you can safely ignore warning messages similar to the following: pg_dump: [custom archiver] WARNING: ftell mismatch with expected position -- ftell used.
• Before you can use any command-line tools, you must start the Gauntlet services (Windows) or run the startstack executable (Linux).
• In a StarTeam replay, files that were deleted from StarTeam during the period being replayed cannot be replayed into Gauntlet.
• In a StarTeam replay, only one StarTeam process item is associated with a StarTeam check-in.
• For the SCTM extension, Gauntlet gets a URL link from the SCTM Web services and puts it in the SCTM report as a link. If you logged on to SCTM locally with a URL in the form localhost/…, the link does not work.
  WORKAROUND: Log on to SCTM with the actual host name instead of localhost.
• To run a StarTeam replay from an encryption-enabled Linux system, you must copy jsafePure.zip from the StarTeam 2005 R2 Universal client lib directory and place it in {Gauntlet_home}/usr/tomcat/shared/lib. You must restart Gauntlet for this to take effect.
• If you change the Dashboard Port in the user interface, and then stop and restart the stack (or Windows Services), the start script erroneously reports that it cannot find Gauntlet. You can safely ignore this message.
• Linux only: Subversion operations can fail when there is a lot of Subversion activity. This happens when the Apache server authentication module opens too many connections to the Postgres DBMS server.
  WORKAROUND: Add the following line to the end of the {Gauntlet_home}/usr/templates/httpd.conf.template file and then restart Gauntlet:
  DBDPersist OFF
• If you configure LDAP settings, you cannot modify the query expression that is displayed by default.
  

Known Documentation Issues

There are no known documentation issues at this time.

Getting Information

For more information or to get help, visit the Gauntlet forum at http://answers.borland.com. Under the heading Discuss in the Forums, click Application Lifecycle Products, and then click Gauntlet.

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Installation Instructions

For information about installation, see install.htm. The default location is Borland\Gauntlet2007

Information for Upgrading Customers

The following features are new in Release 1.1:

• The ability to schedule a replay within Gauntlet.
• Improvements to the Dashboard, including more consistent charts.
• Additions to the Administration area, including the ability to review JVM properties and runtime statistics and improved license configuration and plug-in management.

The following defects are resolved in Release 1.1:

• Gauntlet correctly backs up and restores replay configurations and states.
• Image caches are being deleted so they no longer consume disk space.
• You can now schedule builds for intervals greater than 24 days.