Interactive guideline worksheet for installing IBM® Rational® ClearQuest

Describe your environment

On what operating system do you plan to install?

Do you have previous versions of Rational products installed on the machine?

Are you installing multiple Rational products?

Do you want to perform a silent install, or are you installing on a platform that does not have a graphical user interface?

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To Install Rational ClearQuest:

Plan your deployment

If you have not already done so, review the information in Planning your deployment before starting a Rational ClearQuest installation.

Shut down the servers and databases

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.

Upgrading Rational ClearQuest

If you are upgrading from version 7.x, note that when you upgrade, Installation Manager uninstalls the WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server that were included as part of the product installation. Installing Rational ClearQuest now requires that you have version 7 or higher of WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server installed before beginning. For information on installing and confguring these products, see WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server installation overview.

Configuration tasks

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.

Create a combined repository for a multiple product installation

Use the IBM Packaging Utility if you want to install multiple Rational products in the same repository.

Install synchronization and Rational Shipping Servers

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.

Retrieve and extract the Rational ClearQuest installation media

Either use Passport Advantage to download and verify the Rational ClearQuest installation media, or use the installation DVDs.

Install Rational ClearQuest silently

To perform a silent installation, see the instructions 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.

Use the IBM Installation Manager to install Rational ClearQuest

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 have installed 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.