This topic provides the instructions for installing IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
Before you begin
You must start your installation from the Setup disk, either
by running the launchpad program or by running the userinst program.
In
the instructions that follow, it is assumed that you started your
installation from the Setup disk. If you want Installation Manager
to search for the latest available version of the packages you are
installing, ensure that you are connected to the Internet.
About this task
To install
IBM Rational Functional Tester, complete
the following steps:
Procedure
- Depending on your user ID, complete one of the following
steps:
- If you are installing as an Admin:
- Start the launchpad.
- Click Install IBM Rational Functional Tester.
- If you are installing as a non-Admin: Start the installation
from the Setup disk by running the userinst program.
- If Installation Manager is
not installed on your system or if an older version of Installation Manager is
installed, IBM Installation Manager is listed in the Install
Packages page.
- Follow the on-screen instructions in the wizard and
install IBM Installation Manager.
- When the installation process completes, click Restart
Installation Manager. Installation Manager
closes and restarts.
- In the Installation Manager Start
page, click Install.
- 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.
- 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. The latest 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.
- On the Location page, specify whether to create a package
group and install the IBM Rational Functional Tester package
into a new package group or use an existing package group to shell-share
with another offering. 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 3.4.2 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.
- Click Finish.