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Before You Install The following topics are covered in this chapter;
- UNIX Installation Requirements
- UNIX Hardware Requirements
- UNIX Software Requirements
- Installation Requirements for Rational Rose
- Installation Requirements for Rational SoDA
- Windows Installation Requirements
- Installation Requirements for RequisitePro
- Hardware Requirements
- Licensing Requirements
- RequisiteWeb
- Planning Your Installation
Ensure that you meet the requirements listed in this chapter before proceeding with the installation.
Before You Install Quick ReferenceTable 2 provides a quick reference for tasks that need to be performed before you install Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio. Use this table as a convenient checklist as you run through steps to upgrade your Suite software or perform a new installation.
UNIX Installation RequirementsUNIX Hardware Requirements
Table 3 summarizes the hardware requirements for the installation and use of DevelopmentStudio for UNIX. Note that the recommended amount of memory is only the suggested minimum amount. Additional memory may improve performance. Your memory requirements will also be larger depending on the tasks you are attempting and what else is resident (running concurrently on the system). For example, the construction of larger Rose models requires more memory.
* Highly dependent on the application that`s instrumented
Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio is supported on the following operating systems:
- Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7 (Solaris 7), and 2. 8 (Solaris 8)
- HP-UX 10.20*, 11.00 and 11.11 (11.i)
* Rational Unified Process is not supported on HP-UX 10.20. Supported HP-UX platforms for this product include HP-UX 11.00 and 11.11.
Each point product within the DevelopmentStudio for UNIX has its own range of OS version compatibility as summarized in Table 4. Customers should pick the OS version that intersects the product mix they intend to use.
+ Requires an HTML browser. Netscape Navigator 4.6 or later is recommended.
Installation Requirements for Rational Rose
This section lists requirements that must be met to successfully use Rational Rose. Table 5 summarizes the software requirements for Rational Rose.
1 Rose requires that an ACE release be installed to run properly on HP-UX 10.20. To determine if an ACE release is installed, run /usr/sbin/swlist | grep ACE.
Rational Rose - Operating System Run Time and/or Patch Requirements
The requirements below are in relation to the following platforms (operating system versions):
- HP-UX (10.20 (ACE) and 11.00)
- Sun Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6, 7)
Note: If you are currently using Rose and your installed operating system patches are currently meeting your needs, we strongly recommend that you not change your installed patches. The following patches are recommended for new customers and customers experiencing problems. If you upgrade your patches, we recommend that you use the following patch versions. While we encourage you to contact the appropriate vendor to determine if a patch has been superseded, we cannot guarantee release compatibility with a patch version we have not yet tested. For information regarding the latest patch versions tested or required with this release, visit the Rational web site at http://www.rational.com/support.
Contact Rational Technical Support if you encounter any compatibility difficulties after installing a patch which supersedes the following patches.
HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 Patch Requirements and Descriptions
Table 6 summarizes the patch requirements for HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00.
1 See the following Note The HP-UX patches are available at:
- http://us-support.external.hp.com (US, Canada, Asia-Pacific and Latin-America)
- http://europe-support.external.hp.com (Europe)
- ftp://us-ffs.external.hp.com ("anonymous" FTP)
Solaris Patch Requirements and Descriptions
Note: Some patches are required on the server (the computer which users login to, to run Rose) and the client (the computer which is used to display Rose), and some are required only on the client. In some cases, the server and client are the same computer, but often several users login to one server (to run the application) and have their own displays which serve as their client. The following Sun Solaris patch recommendations are specific to Sun Solaris servers and clients. Table 7 summarizes the server and client patches. Table 8 summarizes the client patches.
The Solaris patches are available at:
The Sun Solaris patches may not be available publicly.
The following may be necessary to obtain some of the Solaris patches listed above:
- Must be under maintenance support with Sun; or
- System must be under warranty; or
- You must be willing to pay for patch to receive it.
Notes
How to detect a graphics card on a Sun Solaris computer:
/dev/fbs/m640 - PGX graphics card
/dev/fbs/afb* - Elite3D graphics card
/dev/fbs/ffb* - Creator/Creator3D graphics card
/dev/fbs/cgsix* - GX graphics card
/dev/fbs/leo* - ZX graphics card
/dev/fbs/sx* - SX graphics card
Installation Requirements for Rational SoDA
Note: FrameMaker + SGML is no longer shipped with SoDA. It must now be licensed and installed independently. Rational SoDA 2001A.04.00 supports FrameMaker+SGML 5.5 and 6.0.
You may want to install FrameMaker + SGML 5.5 or 6.0 before you install Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio. Make a note of the FrameMaker + SGML installation directory as you need to provide this during the installation.
Alternatively, you can go ahead and install Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio and install FrameMaker + SGML later. See Integrating Products That Are Not Part of the Suite for information about how to integrate FrameMaker + SGML with SoDA after you have installed the Suite.
If you have previously installed version 3.0.1, 3.0.3, or 3.1.0 of Rational SoDA, you may choose to use the installation of FrameMaker+SGML bundled with that release. To do this, copy the entire SoDA directory to a new location and uninstall the previous version of Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio. This way, you do not accidentally remove the previous version of Rational SoDA when you uninstall the Suite.
Installation Requirements for Rational ClearCase LT
Rational ClearCase LT is included with this release of Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio on a separate CD as an optional product for you to install. Your Suite license key can be used to install ClearCase LT
You must install Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio before you install Rational ClearCase LT. When you install Rational ClearCase LT you are prompted to provide the host name of the Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio license server. By doing the installation in this sequence, ClearCase LT will be able to use the Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio license key.
For more information about the requirements for installing Rational ClearCase LT, see the Rational ClearCase LT Installation Notes.
Windows Installation RequirementsInstallation Requirements for RequisitePro
RequisitePro is available on the Windows platform and is accessed on UNIX through a web interface. Installation requirements for RequisitePro are listed in this section.
Complete installation instructions can be found on the Rational Solutions for Windows Online Documentation CD. You can also view the instructions online by typing rsdsu_help.
Note: It is recommended that for best web server performance a dedicated Windows Server system be configured.
Hardware Requirements
- Pentium 300 MHz or faster processor recommended
- 128 MB or more of memory
- 250 MB or more of disk space
- 800 x 600 x 256 color video resolution, or higher
- Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
- CD-ROM drive
Licensing Requirements
To install and use RequisiteWeb you will need the following license:
- One floating license for Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio web components. This provides a license for RequisitePro.
This license can be served from either a UNIX license server or a Windows license server.
Note: If you are configuring your Windows system to get licenses from a UNIX system, you will need to have DNS configured on your Windows system.
To check, try to ping the UNIX license server by name and by IP address. If networking is okay, you should be able to ping the system by IP address. If DNS is configured, you will be able to ping by name.
RequisiteWeb
RequisiteWeb provides a Web interface for accessing RequisitePro project data through a Web browser.
Installation and configuration instructions can be found in rational_dir/docs/html/reqweb_install/RequisiteWebInstall.html. This document is available through the documentation browser accessed through the rsdsu_help command.
Oracle and SQL Server Databases
To create and access RequisitePro projects in Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server databases, you must configure an Oracle or SQL Server schema on your database server, and install RequisitePro and RequisiteEnterprise on your client system.
Note: RequisiteEnterprise is available separately for Rational Suite users who require access to these database servers.
RequisiteWeb Interface
The RequisiteWeb interface requires the installation of Web components on a Microsoft Windows server and a Web browser on the client system.
Web Server
RequisiteWeb requires that it be installed on an Internet Information Server (IIS). If you prefer to use the Personal Web Server (PWS), you can do so by performing a "Custom Installation" and checking the box for Internet Service Manager.
IIS is the web server for Microsoft NT Server; PWS is the web server for Microsoft NT Workstation. Since NT Workstation and Personal Web Server have a limited number of connections, they are often not suitable for production use. However, you may find it convenient to use Personal Web Server for evaluation or demonstration purposes.
The following table summarizes the requirements for the RequisiteWeb server.
Web Interface Client
To use the RequisiteWeb interface requires that a web browser be available. rs_install will install a version of Netscape that is compatible with RequisiteWeb. No additional client installation is required for use of the RequisiteWeb interface. If you choose not to use the supplied version of Netscape, the following web browsers should be compatible:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x or later
- Netscape Communicator 4.x or later
- Netscape Navigator 4.x for UNIX or later
Installation Requirements for Rational ClearQuest Web
Rational ClearQuest is provided on UNIX; however, you may use your Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio (Windows components) license key to install Rational ClearQuest Web on Windows. Installing ClearQuest Web allows UNIX users to access ClearQuest on Windows through their web browser.
This manual assumes that an existing Rational ClearQuest for Windows installation is being used and that only the web component is being installed. For installation requirements for ClearQuest Web, refer to the Installing Rational ClearQuest Installation manual. If you are performing a full installation of ClearQuest, refer to the ClearQuest documentation provided on the Rational Solutions for Windows Online Documentation CD in addition to the Installing Rational ClearQuest Installation manual.
Planning Your InstallationRational Suite DevelopmentStudio is designed to work in a distributed environment. Both Solaris and HP-UX versions are available, and both may be installed on the same network.
For the purposes of installation, your computers assume roles as depicted in Figure 1. Note that these roles are generalized; in practice, any particular computer can serve more than one role. In fact, this is typically the case. In many installations, the roles of the storage host, license server, install client, and exec client are provided by a single UNIX server. A separate Windows server is still required to act as the RequisitePro server.
Storage Host
This is the computer that hosts the physical disks on which the product will be installed. All computers with UNIX roles must have access to the installation directory on this disk, presumably through NFS. (Operating System: Solaris or HP-UX).
X-server
This is any computer, typically an engineering workstation, which provides an X-Windows display to the end user. This role is shown for completeness; its operation is transparent to the installation.
RequisitePro Server
This Windows computer hosts the RequisitePro component. This server is only needed if you are going to use RequisitePro. See the RequisitePro document for more information. Access to RequisitePro is provided through a web interface.
Note: You cannot have two different versions of Rational Suite installed on the same Windows server.
Figure 1 Installation Computer Roles
License Servers
These computers provide licensing for Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio. License server configurations are described in more detail in License Server Configurations.
Note: In most cases, it is possible to use the same license server to manage Suite licenses and individual point-product licenses; however, some exceptions apply. For example, ClearDDTS and Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio licenses cannot be served by the same license server. This configuration requires that two separate license servers be set up on two different UNIX systems.
Install Client
This is simply the computer on which you run the installation utility. Typically, this is the same computer as the storage host. (Operating System: Solaris or HP-UX)
Execution Client
This is any computer which will execute the component products. There may be any number of execution clients on your network. (Operating System: Solaris or HP-UX)
Note that you only need to install the UNIX components once, on the install client and storage server. Individual workstations (execution clients) may simply run the installed software from the single installation area.
License Server Configurations
Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio supports three license server configurations:
- Single server configuration
- Two server configuration
- Redundant server configuration
Single server configuration
As shown in Figure 2, the single server configuration uses a single UNIX server to manage licenses for both UNIX components and Windows components. This is the recommended configuration because it is the simplest to manage.
Figure 2 Single server configuration
Two server configuration
As shown in Figure 3, a two-server configuration uses a UNIX server to manage licenses for UNIX components and a Windows server to manage licenses for the Windows components (Rational Requisite Pro and Rational ClearQuest Web). Information on installing the Windows license server is provided in Installing the FLEXlm License Server on Windows.
Figure 3 Two server configuration
Redundant server configuration
As shown in Figure 4, a redundant server configuration uses three UNIX servers to manage licenses in a fault-tolerant configuration known as redundancy. The redundant server configuration is described in more detail in Setting up Redundant Servers on UNIX.
Figure 4 Redundant server configuration
Installation WorksheetThe following worksheet is provided for convenience in planning the installation. Note that some parts may not be known until you begin the installation.
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