Rational DOORS 9.3 and after supports silent installation. Instead of running the Rational DOORS server and client installers from scratch, adding the same values time and time 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.
To run a silent installation, you run each product installer from the command line, with settings for the port number, the location of the database, and so on, added as parameter values.
If you have the Rational DOORS for Rational Quality Manager Interface installed on your system, you add additional parameters and values to the command line.
For the Rational DOORS database server, enter a command in the following 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\""
For the Rational DOORS client, enter a command in the following 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\"
For the Rational DOORS client and the Rational Quality Manager Interface client, enter a command in the following format:
setup.exe /s /v"/l*v \
\"C:\doors_client\install.log\" /qn
ADDLOCAL=\"DOORS_Files,RCPHelp,IBMJRE_50,RQMClient,RQMCommon\"
INSTALLDIR=\"C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\DOORS"
CLIENTDATA=\"36677@server_machine\"
LAPAGREE=\"Yes\" TLLICENSESERVER=\"19353@license_server\"
RQMISERVERPORTNO=\"7764\" RQMISERVER=\"RQMI_server\" "
For the Rational DOORS client, the Rational Quality Manager Interface client, and the Rational Quality Manager Interface server, enter a command in the following format:
setup.exe /s /v"/l*v \
\"C:\doors_client\install.log\" /qn
ADDLOCAL=\"DOORS_Files,RCPHelp,IBMJRE_50,RQMServer,RQMClient,RQMCommon\"
INSTALLDIR=\"C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\DOORS"
CLIENTDATA=\"36677@server_machine\"
LAPAGREE=\"Yes\" TLLICENSESERVER=\"19353@license_server\"
RQMSERVER=\"RQM_server\"
RQMUSER=\"RQMISVR\" RQMPASSWORD=\"RQMISVR\"
RQMPORTNO=\"9443\" DOORSUSER=\"RQMISYNC\"
DOORSPASSWORD=\"RQMISYNC\" RQMISERVERPORTNO=\"7764\"
RQMISERVER=\"RQMI_server\"
DATABASEDIR=\"C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\DOORS\9.3\RQMInterface\"
DBHOST=\"DBHost\" DBPORT=\"36688\" "
Script your Rational product installations in the following order:
If there are errors, a silent installation program records status information for the silent installation is recorded in a log file called install.log. In the command-line script, you can specify any log name and location you want.