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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install IBM® Rational® Functional Tester software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Installation
You can find information about the installation of IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
Installing the product using Installation Manager
In this section, you will learn the pre-installation, installation, and post-installation tasks to install the product by using Installation Manager.
Planning the installation
Read all the topics in this section before you begin to install or update any of the product features. Effective planning and an understanding of the key aspects of the installation process can help ensure a successful installation.
Installation considerations
Part of planning entails making decisions about installation locations, working with other applications, extending Eclipse, upgrading, migrating, and configuring help content.
Installation repositories
Installation Manager retrieves product packages from specified repository locations.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install IBM® Rational® Functional Tester software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation
  You can find information about the installation of IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Installation requirements
    This section details hardware, software, and user privilege requirements that must be met in order to successfully install and run Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Installing the product using Installation Manager
    In this section, you will learn the pre-installation, installation, and post-installation tasks to install the product by using Installation Manager.
    - Installation terminology
      Understanding these terms can help you take full advantage of the installation information and your Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Planning the installation
      Read all the topics in this section before you begin to install or update any of the product features. Effective planning and an understanding of the key aspects of the installation process can help ensure a successful installation.
      - Installation roadmap
        The installation roadmap lists the high-level steps for installing your product.
      - Installation Manager overview
        Installation Manager is a program for installing, updating, and modifying packages. It helps you manage the applications, or packages, that it installs on your computer. Installation Manager does more than install packages: It helps you keep track of what you have installed, determine what is available for you to install, and organize installation directories.
      - Installation considerations
        Part of planning entails making decisions about installation locations, working with other applications, extending Eclipse, upgrading, migrating, and configuring help content.
        Planning what features to install
        You can customize your software product by selecting which features of Rational® Functional Tester to install.
        Extending an existing Eclipse IDE
        When you install the Rational® Functional Tester product package, you can choose to extend an Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) already installed on your computer by adding the functions that the Rational Functional Tester package contains.
        Installation repositories
        Installation Manager retrieves product packages from specified repository locations.
        Setting repository preferences in Installation Manager
        When you start the installation of Rational® Functional Tester from the launchpad program, the location of the repository that contains the product package you are installing is automatically defined in IBM® Installation Manager when it starts.When you download and install Installation Manager separately, you must specify the repository preference (the URL for the directory that contains the product package) in Installation Manager before you can install the product package.
    - Preinstallation tasks
      Before you install the product, you might need to prepare or configure your computer.
    - Installing software
      This section provides the instructions for installing Installation Manager and the product as well as installation verification.
    - Post-installation tasks
      After you have installed your product package, complete the post-installation tasks or configure your product package as required.
    - Installation in the shell sharing mode
      You can install Rational® Functional Tester in the same package group with the other supported Eclipse-based products. These products share a common environment, or they are shell shared. Shell shared products have a common installation directory, <install_directory>\IBM\SDP. Rational Functional Tester installs as a perspective in the UI of the product with which it is shell-shared.
    - Modifying installations
      The Modify Packages wizard in the IBM® Installation Manager enables you to change the language and feature selections of an installed product package. You can also use the Modify Packages wizard to install new features that might be included in a package update, such as a refresh pack.
    - Uninstalling Rational® Functional Tester
      The Uninstall Packages option in the Installation Manager enables you to uninstall packages from a single installation location. You can also uninstall all the installed packages from every installation location.
  - Upgrading and migrating
    When you want to use the enhanced functionality of Rational® Functional Tester, you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- License management
  Licensing for your installed IBM® software and customized packages is administered through the Manage Licenses wizard in the IBM Installation Manager. The Manage Licenses wizard displays license information for each installed package.
- Starting Rational® Functional Tester from the command line
  You can start Rational® Functional Tester from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.
- Integrations in UI Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
- Integrations in Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.

Installation repositories

Installation Manager retrieves product packages from specified repository locations.

If the launchpad is used to start Installation Manager, the repository information is passed to Installation Manager.

If the Installation Manager is started directly, you must specify an installation repository that contains the product packages that you want to install. See Setting repository preferences in Installation Manager.

Some organizations bundle and host their own product packages on their intranet. Your system administrators will need to provide you with the correct URL.

By default, Installation Manager uses an embedded URL in each product to connect to a repository server over the Internet. Installation Manager then searches for the product packages as well as new features.