To prepare Rational® Functional Tester for
installation from a repository located on an HTTP Web server:
- Ensure that your HTTP or HTTPS Web server has sufficient disk space
to store the product package. Refer to Hardware requirements.
- Ensure that your workstation has sufficient disk space to store
both the files you must download from IBM Passport Advantage® and the
extracted installation image. Refer to Hardware requirements
- Download all required parts for the product image from IBM Passport
Advantage to a temporary directory on your workstation.
- Extract the installation image from the downloaded files into another
temporary directory on your workstation and verify that the installation image
is complete. See Verifying and extracting electronic images for details.
- Install on your workstation the IBM Packaging Utility from the Enterprise
Deployment CD (or electronic disk) appropriate for your platform.
- Using the Packaging Utility, copy the Rational Functional Tester product
package.
- Copy the output of the Packaging Utility to an HTTP or HTTPS Web
Server.
- Copy the installation files for IBM Installation Manager from the Enterprise
Deployment CD to a shared drive.
- Instruct users in your organization to install Installation Manager.
- Provide users the URL for the repository that contains the Rational Functional Tester product
package you created earlier.