Perforce Remote depot creation

The perforce remote depot allows to access files in depot created in another server instance. For example if you are connected to a server listening to port 1666 and want to access contents of a depot created in server listening at port 1667, remote depot assists in doing this. You can sync, diff and integrate remote depot with local depot.

Example:
Server1=1666 : Branch-name=//user/sguru/...
Server2=1888 : Remote-depot=//remote-sguru/... (this is the new depot which will be created)
I need to make //user/sguru/... in server1 as remote depot in server2

Step1: Create a new depot on Server2 and make following changes in depot spec
Depot: remote-sguru
Type: remote
Address: server1:1666
Map: //users/sguru/...

Step2: Open protection table on Server1 and add the following line
read user remote //users/sguru/…

Step3: Grant read access to //remote-sguru/... depot only to your build or integration managers. Open protection table on Server2 and add the following
list user * * -//remote-sguru/...
read user p4admin * //remote-sguru/...
We are avoiding rest of users other than admin accessing directly remote depot (server1) through //remote-sguru/... to minimize network traffic. Instead we create another branch as described in step4 and allow other users to access remote depot code from it.

Step4: Integrate //remote-sguru/... to location and allow rest of the users to access remote data from here. This will reduce network traffic. On server2 do following
p4 integ //remote-sguru/... //users/remote-sguru/...
Add following line to protect table
read user * * //users/remote-sguru/...

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- Login as root
- startsrc -s sshd #This will start sshd process
0513-059 The sshd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 27216.

- lssrc -s sshd #To check the status of sshd
Subsystem Group PID Status
sshd ssh 253954 active


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Perforce spec depot

No need to manage manually perforce specs like client spec, job spec, label spec, branch spec, protection table, etc. Perforce (from 2005.1 release) provides a special depot called specs depot which take care of managing these specs by automatically creating a new version under //spec for each spec modifications.
How to create spec depot?
- p4 depot spec (or any other name U wish)
- In type field change it to spec (by default it comes local)
- Save it. It creates //spec depot. From now on any modifications to specs are stored under //spec depot. For example client spec changes will be stored in //spec/client/client-name.p4s

How to populate spec depot with change details for specs already created?
Run command "p4 admin updatespecdepot -a" (This command available from 2007.3 release).
If you want to restrict population to specific type of spec, then modified command will be
p4 admin updatespecdepot -s spec
Ex: p4 admin updatespecdepot -s client

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