Silently installing on Windows systems

You can silently install the IBM® Rational® DOORS® server and client on Windows systems only.

Before you begin

If you plan to silently install on Microsoft Windows Vista, make sure that the User Account Control is off.

About this task

Instead of running the Rational DOORS server and client installers from the beginning and adding the same values again, you can create installation scripts that contain your preferred settings, and then run the scripts to install the server and client across the network.

Script your Rational product installations in this order:

  1. Any of these products: Rational DOORS, IBM Rational Synergy, IBM Rational Change, and IBM Rational Tau
  2. Rational DOORS Analyst Add On
  3. All other products and integrations

To silently install, you run each product installer from a command line. You add settings for the port number, the location of the database, and so on as parameter values.

If errors occur, a silent installation program records status information in the install.log file. In the command-line script, you can specify any log name and location.

Procedure

  1. To silently install the Rational DOORS database server, enter a command in this format:
    C:\doors_server\setup.exe /s /v"/l*v
    \"C:\doors_server\install.log\" /qn
    PORTNUMBER=\"36677\"
    DATABASEDIR=\"C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\DOORS\9.5\data\"
    INSTALLDIR=\"C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\DOORS\9.5\""
  2. To silently install the Rational DOORS client, enter a command in this format:
    setup.exe /s /v"/l*v
    \"C:\doors_client\install.log\" /qn
    INSTALLDIR=\"C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\DOORS\"
    CLIENTDATA=\"36677@server_machine\"
    LAPAGREE=\"Yes\" TLLICENSESERVER=\"19353@license_server\"

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