To create a repository on an
HTTP or HTTPS server, you must use Packaging Utility to copy the product
package for
Rational® Functional Tester.
About this task
Note that this method does not copy the optional software
that is included with the Rational Functional Tester installation
image. Only the Rational Functional Tester files
that are installed using IBM® Installation Manager are copied.
Note
also that Packaging Utility can be used to combine multiple product
packages into a single repository location. See the Packaging Utility
online help for more information.
Procedure
- If you are copying from a CD image, perform these tasks:
- Insert the first installation CD into your CD drive.
- For Linux®: Mount the CD drive.
- If autorun is enabled on your system, the Rational Functional Tester launchpad
program automatically opens. Close the launchpad program.
- Start Packaging Utility.
- On the main page of the utility, click Copy
Packages. The Prerequisite page opens,
and presents two options:
- I will be downloading product packages from IBM Web
- I will be obtaining the product packages from other
sources
- Click I will be downloading product packages
from IBM Web.
Note: You can use the I
will be obtaining the product packages from other sources option
if you have already defined an accessible repository.
- Click Next to advance to the Source
page. If there are no product packages to select, you must open a
repository that contains product packages.
- To open a repository, click the Open repository button. The Open Repository window opens.
Note: A
repository can be a path to a file on the local file system, a disk
drive containing the first CD of the product, or a URL to a file on
a server.
- To define a repository location, click the Repository Location Browse button,
and then navigate to the Repository location (the common root directory)
that contains the disk images. For example, if the product files (disk1,
disk2, and so on) reside in C:\productA\unzip, you should navigate
there and select the repository.config file, the diskTag.inf, the
jar file, or a zip file.
- Click OK to define the repository
location and to close the Browse to a repository directory window.
- On the Destination page, click the Browse button
and select an existing repository directory, or create a new folder
to store the products.
- After you specify a repository for the selected product
packages and any fixes, click OK to close the Browse
to a directory window. The file path that
you just defined is listed in the Directory field
on the Destination page.
- Click Next to advance to the Summary page. The Summary page displays the selected
product packages that will be copied into the destination repository.
This page also lists the amount of storage space that the copy requires,
as well as the amount of available space on the drive.
- Click Copy to copy the selected
product packages to the destination repository. A status
bar opens at the bottom of the wizard indicating how much time is
remaining in the copy process. After the copy process
is finished, a Complete page opens and displays
all of the product packages that were copied successfully.
- Click Done to return to the Packaging
Utility main page.
Example
Now that you have used Packaging Utility to copy the Rational Functional Tester installation
files into a repository, you can place the repository on a Web server
and make the directories and files available over HTTP. (The repository
can also be placed on a UNC drive.)
For the
latest information about working with IBM Packaging Utility, visit
the IBM Packaging Utility Information Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/install/v1r2/index.jsp.