Planning the deployment and installation

Before installing Rational ClearQuest, complete planning tasks to determine what ClearQuest components to install, review system requirements, and complete required and optional configuration tasks to prepare your environment for the ClearQuest installation process.

Table 1 provides an overview of installation planning and configuration tasks to complete before installing the ClearQuest software.

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Table 1. Installation planning tasks
Task Client and/or Server Information Comment
Select your clients

Client

Selecting the ClearQuest clients to deploy  
Decide on the feature level for schemas and user databases

Server

Decide on the feature level for schema repositories and databases

Features in the feature levels

Feature level 7 supports Full-text search, Pessimistic record locking, and FIPS 140–2 compliant data encryption.
Determine the number of schema repositories and user databases

Client

Server

Plan your Rational ClearQuest database set architecture  
If you are using Rational ClearQuest MultiSite to replicate databases to multiple locations, you must implement a MultiSite configuration.

Server

Administering Rational ClearQuest MultiSite A MultiSite configuration includes the Rational Shipping Server and synchronization servers at a master site and at one or more replica sites.
If you are going to use Rational ClearQuest web, you must determine the number of web servers that will be used in your environment.

Server

Administering Rational ClearQuest Web If you are going to use a single server architecture, you can run theRational CM Server and Web Application on the same server.

If you are going to use a multiple server architecture, then the Rational CM Server and the Web Application can run on one or more web servers.

Determine method of authentication.

Server

Manage user accounts and Using LDAP with ClearQuest You can use traditional Rational ClearQuest authentication or use the industry standard Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to authenticate using an LDAP directory server.
Planning to integrate Rational ClearQuest with other products.

Server

Integrating Rational ClearQuest with other products  
Check that your environment has the supported Vendor databases and platforms.

Client

Server

Identify prerequisite hardware and software requirements

 
Perform any platform configuration requirements depending on the platforms you are deploying to.

Server

Prerequisite tasks by platform  
Determine whether you will enable full-text search

Server

Configuring and maintaining full-text search

Full-text search is a Rational ClearQuest server feature. When full-text search is installed and configured, users can run full-text search operations to find information in the ClearQuest database using the ClearQuest client applications.
Determine your reporting strategy with the Rational ClearQuest 7.1.x reporting capabilities.

Server

Planning and configuring the reporting environment  
Configure your vendor databases

Server

Vendor database configuration  
Configure your license servers

Server

Configuring licensing for Rational Common Licensing  

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