Rational Synergy supports multiple simultaneous installations of the Rational Synergy software. Multiple installations let you use more than one release of Rational Synergy on the same platform. You can also run binary-incompatible versions on a network of Rational Synergy-supported machines. For example, you might have a network with both Linux and Solaris machines.
If you are installing onto a heterogeneous network, perform the following consistency checks:
Choose a machine for the primary installation. (Installations for all other platforms are considered secondary installations.) The file server machine is where the installed Rational Synergy files physically reside. To avoid problems writing these files to the installation directory as root, use the same machine for the primary installation machine and the file server. Perform the installation on that machine. Symbolically link /usr/local/ccm to the installation directory. This process makes it easy to upgrade to a new release by re-linking ccm.