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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.
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.

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.
- 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.
  - License descriptions
    You can understand the types of licenses available for the product and choose the correct license to run tests.
  - Runtime licenses enablement for testing
    You can check and enable the correct runtime license to run AFT suites or parallel execution of tests on more than 5 channels.
  - Viewing license information for installed packages
    You can review license information for your installed packages, including license types and expiration dates, from IBM® Installation Manager.
- Starting Rational® Functional Tester from the command line
  You can start Rational® Functional Tester from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.
- Software configuration management
  You can integrateRational® Functional Tester with the software configuration management systems to maintain an auditable and repeatable history of your organization's test assets.
- 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.

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.

Using the Manage Licenses wizard, you can apply either a license to a product or upgrade trial versions of an offering to a licensed version.

For more information about managing licenses for your Rational® product, see these resources: