The following steps describe installing the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester package
with the Installation Manager graphical
user interface (GUI).
- From the Installation Manager Start
page, click Install.
Note: If a new version
of Installation Manager is
found, you are prompted to confirm that you want to install it before you
can continue. Click OK to proceed. Installation Manager
automatically installs the new version, stops, restarts, and resumes.
- The Install page of the Install Packages wizard lists all the packages
found in the repositories that Installation Manager searched.
If two versions of a package are discovered, only the most recent, or recommended,
version of the package is displayed.
- To display all versions of any package found by Installation Manager,
click Show all versions.
- To return to the display of only the recommended packages, click Show
only recommended.
- Click the IBM Rational Functional Tester package
to display its description in the Details pane.
- To search for updates to the IBM Rational Functional Tester package,
or for extension offerings that can be applied on IBM Rational Functional Tester,
click Check for Other Versions and Extensions.
Note: For Installation Manager to search the predefined IBM update repository
locations for the installed packages, the preference Search the
linked repositories during installation and updates on the Repositories
preference page must be selected. This preference is selected by default.
Internet access is also required.
Installation Manager searches
for updates at the predefined IBM update repository for the product package.
It also searches any repository locations that you have set. A progress indicator
shows the search is taking place. You can install updates at the same time
that you install the base product package.
- If updates for the IBM Rational Functional Tester package
are found, then they will be displayed in the Installation Packages list
on the Install Packages page below their corresponding product. Only recommended
updates are displayed by default.
- To view all updates found for the available packages, click Show
all versions.
- To display a package description under Details,
click on the package name. If additional information about the package is
available, such as a readme file or release notes, a More info link
is included at the end of the description text. Click the link to display
the additional information in a browser. To fully understand the package you
are installing, review all information beforehand.
- Select the IBM Rational Functional Tester package
and any updates to the package that you want to install. Updates that have
dependencies are automatically selected and cleared together. Click Next to
continue.
Note: If you install multiple packages at the same time,
then all the packages will be installed into the same package group.
- On the Licenses page, read the license agreement for the selected
package.
If you selected more than one package to install,
there might be a license agreement for each package. On the left side of the License page,
click each package version to display its license agreement. The package versions
that you selected to install (for example, the base package and an update)
are listed under the package name.
- If you agree to the terms of all of the license agreements,
click I accept the terms of the license agreements.
- Click Next to continue.
- On the Location page, type the path for the shared resources
directory in the Shared Resources Directory field,
or accept the default path. The shared resources directory contains resources
that can be shared by one or more package groups. Click Next to
continue.
Important: If you are installing on Windows® Vista,
then to enable users who do not have Administrator privileges to work with Rational Functional Tester, do not
choose a directory inside the Program Files directory (C:\Program Files\).
The
default path is:
- For Windows: C:\Program Files\IBM\IBMIMShared
- For Linux®:/opt/IBM/IBMIMShared
Important: You can specify the shared resources directory
only the first time that you install a package. Use your largest disk for
this to help ensure adequate space for the shared resources of future packages.
You cannot change the directory location unless you uninstall all packages.
Note: Ensure that your installation path does not contain parenthesis.
- On the Location page, use create a package group to
install the IBM Rational Functional Tester package
into or if this is an update, use the existing package group. A package group
represents a directory in which packages share resources with other packages
in the same group. To create a new package group:
- Click Create a new package group.
- Type the path for the installation directory for the package
group. The name for the package group is created automatically.
The
default path is:
- For Windows:C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP
- For Linux:/opt/IBM/SDP
Note: If you are installing on Linux, ensure that you do not include
any spaces in the directory path.
Important: On Windows
Vista, the Program Files directory is usually virtualized in order to
allow users who are not running as the administrator to have write access
to this protected directory. However, the virtualization workaround is not
compatible with Rational Functional Tester.
- Click Next to continue.
- On the next Location page, you can choose to extend an existing
Eclipse IDE already installed on your system, adding the functionality in
the packages that you are installing. You must have Eclipse version 3.4.1
with the latest updates from eclipse.org to select this option.
- If you do not want to extend an existing Eclipse IDE, click Next to
continue.
- To extend an existing Eclipse IDE:
- Select Extend an existing Eclipse.
- In the Eclipse IDE field, type or navigate to the
location of the folder containing the eclipse executable file (eclipse.exe
or eclipse.bin). Installation Manager will
check if the Eclipse IDE version is valid for the package that you are installing.
The Eclipse IDE JVM field displays the Java™ Virtual
Machine (JVM) for the IDE that you specified.
- Click Next to continue.
- On the Features page under Languages, select
the languages for the package group. The corresponding national language translations
for the user interface and documentation for the IBM Rational Functional Tester package
will be installed.
- On the next Features page, select the package features that you
want to install.
- Optional: To see the dependency relationships between
features, select Show Dependencies.
- Optional: Click a feature to view its brief description
under Details.
- Select or clear features in the packages. Installation Manager will
automatically enforce any dependencies with other features and display updated
download size and disk space requirements for the installation.
- When you are finished selecting features, click Next to
continue.
- On the next Help System Features page, select the required option
to access the help contents for the product. For more information
about the help configuration, see Web-based
help content.
- On the Summary page, review your choices before installing the IBM Rational Functional Tester package. If
you want to change the choices that you made on previous pages, click Back and
make your changes. When you are satisfied with your installation choices,
click Install to install the package. A
progress indicator shows the percentage of the installation completed.
- When the installation process is complete, a message confirms the
success of the process.
- Click View log file to open the installation
log file for the current session in a new window. You must close the Installation
Log window to continue.
- In the Install Package wizard, select whether you want IBM Rational Functional Tester to
start when you exit.
- Click Finish to launch the selected package.
The Install Package wizard closes and you are returned to the Start page of Installation Manager.