Clients
In ClearCase the terms client and server are a bit mixed when it comes to host functionality. Most ClearCase clients act as servers when they provide storage for views, and processor time and memory for the view server processes. On the other hand you can, in most cases, use any ClearCase server to access and even to modify the data in VOBs and views using normal ClearCase interfaces:
If a ClearCase client can provide local views, it could provide local VOBs, too, and any other ClearCase client in the registry could access them.
The servers can act as clients; for example, a VOB server is a client to the registry server.
Most often the server hosts for VOB, license, and registry services are dedicated to provide only the services. The ...
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