If you have not already done so, review the information in Planning your deployment before starting a Rational ClearQuest installation.
Shut down the Rational ClearQuest servers, including the Rational ClearQuest Web servers. Shut down the Rational ClearQuest databases, using the processes specific to each vendor database. Then shut down all other IBM Rational products.
This action prevents Rational ClearQuest clients from accessing or updating the databases.
If you are upgrading from version 2003.06.xx, before installing Rational products with Installation Manager, you must use the rationaluninstalltool.exe tool to uninstall previous versions of Rational products that were installed with the MSI based install technology.
Confirm that your user ID meets the required access privileges for installing the product. For more information, see the user privilege requirements.
If you are on Linux or the UNIX system and you want to enable the product to be used by users other than root, then you must set the umask variable to 0022 before you install the product. To set this variable, log in as root user, start a terminal session, and type umask 0022.
For best results, before you work with your Rational product, increase the number of file handles available. For instructions to set ulimit to a number larger than 1024, see Increasing the number of file handles on Linux workstations.
Windows Vista users must have Administrator access if installing into the C:\Program Files directory. For more information, see Windows Vista user privilege requirements for using the product.
Use the IBM Packaging Utility if you want to install multiple Rational products in the same repository.
If you have a MultiSite configuration and you are upgrading from version 2003.06.xx, install version 7.1.x of the Rational ClearQuest MultiSite Administration Tools as your synchronization server, and the Rational Shipping Server. You must upgrade all of your synchronization servers and shipping servers to version 7.1.x at the same time.
Either use Passport Advantage to download and verify the Rational ClearQuest installation media, or use the installation DVDs.
To perform a standard silent installation, see the instructions in Installing silently.
To perform a silent installation on a platform without a graphical user interface, see the addtional information in Installing silently.
See the following for a sample response file used for silent installs: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21348204.
Starting with this release, IBM Installation Manager is used to install Rational ClearQuest. Installation Manager is a program for installing, updating, and modifying packages. It helps you manage the IBM applications, or packages, that it installs on your computer. Installation Manager does more than install packages: It helps you keep track of what you have installed, determine what is available for you to install, and organize installation directories.
If you do not have Installation Manager installed, see Installation Manager tasks for information about manually installing, starting, and uninstalling Installation Manager. You also have the option to start the ClearQuest installation from the launchpad program, which will install Installation Manager for you. To do so, see Installing from the Launchpad program.
See Installing the product package using the Installation Manager GUI for a description of the screens you see in Installation Manager when installing Rational ClearQuest.
You are now ready to use Rational ClearQuest.
Depending on your configuration, you might have to view optional configuration settings in the Help.