What can I find out about a profile?

Profiles in TeamForge Lab Management contain a great deal of information, and they are also versioned, so not only is the information they contain important, but it is also important to be able to understand how those changes differ between versions.

Information about profiles and versions is shown on the Version Details page. To reach this page, select a profile in the Profile Library and click the Version Details tab.

Profile Information

The profile information section shows some basic facts about the profile at each version:

Profile version number
Profile version tag corresponding to each version (if a tag exists for that version)
The description of that profile version (set by the profile owner)
Whether or not that version of the profile has been designated as buildable or not buildable by the owner of the profile

This basic profile information is always displayed, regardless of the other viewing options you have selected

Build Counts

The build count information offers a simple measure of each profile's popularity. It tracks:

The number of hosts currently running each profile and version
The total number of hosts that have ever been built with each version of the profile

To display build count information, select Build counts and click Update

Subversion (SVN) Commit Details

The SVN commit details for each profile revision give some information, at the low-level repository level, about changes made to the profile. This information will not generally be useful to project admins or users, but is occasionally vital. This section shows:

The Subversion repository revision corresponding to the version number of the profile
The author of the change. This may not be a user or administrator on your site, but is likely a CollabNet administrator
The date of the change, in Subversion's standard date/time format
The commit message that accompanied the change

To show the SVN commit details, select SVN Commit Details and click Update.

Hardware restrictions

The hardware restrictions for each profile govern the ability, based on the allowable hardware required by the operating system profile to run, of the profile to be assigned to a given host. Using the Profile Administration screen, project admins can set various restrictions on the hardware required to run a given profile.

Not having any hardware restrictions on the profile does not guarantee that it will run on any hardware, but it is more of an assurance. The available restrictions which will be listed are:

The types of CPU that can be used to build the profile, for example, "Xeon" or "UltraSparc IV"
The CPU architectures that can be used to build the profile, for example, "x86_64" or "sun4v"
The number of CPU's required to run the profile
Specific hardware models which are required to run the profile, for example, "PDP-11"
The minimum hard disk size, in gigabytes (GB), required to install and run the profile

You can display the hardware restrictions by checking the box labeled Hardware Restrictions and clicking on the Update button.

Logo Image

The project administrator for the profile can set up a logo image for the profile, which will appear here if requested.

To show the profile logo, select Logo and click Update.