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Chapter 1 • Installing Quality Center Synchronizer
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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 Configurations
This 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
➤ “Client System Configurations” on page 14
➤ “Supported Endpoints” on page 14