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This guide describes how to install the IBM® Rational® Test RealTime software.
Installing
This section provides the instructions for installing IBM® Installation Manager and the product as well as installation verification. To install your product, follow the procedures and information in these topics. Installing the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install the IBM® Rational® Test RealTime software.
- Installing
  This section provides the instructions for installing IBM® Installation Manager and the product as well as installation verification. To install your product, follow the procedures and information in these topics. Installing the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help.
  - Installation requirements
    This section details hardware, software, and user privilege requirements that must be met in order to successfully install and run Rational® Test RealTime.
  - Planning the installation
    After verifying hardware, software, and user privilege requirements, plan the features and software that you want to install.
  - Installing the product
    Installing the product involves verifying requirements, planning, performing pre-installation tasks and managing licenses.
  - Verifying the installation
    When the installation process is complete, a message confirms the success of the process. You can open the log file to verify your installation of the product.
  - Starting Rational® Test RealTime
    You can start your product from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.
  - Managing licenses
    The license server and port for Rational® Test RealTime are set up when you install the product from Installation Manager. You can apply a license to a product or upgrade trial versions of an offering to a licensed version by importing a product activation kit. You can also enable floating license enforcement for offerings with trial or permanent licenses to use floating license keys from a license server. You can update the license and port from License Key Administrator (LKAD) that must be installed on your computer on Windows or by updating the script in the "testrtini.sh" file on Linux.
- Configuring
  Use these topics to configure the product.
- Integrating
  Read these topics to learn how the product works when integrated with other products.

Installing

This section provides the instructions for installing IBM® Installation Manager and the product as well as installation verification. To install your product, follow the procedures and information in these topics. Installing the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help.

Note: Before installing, consult the Rational® Test RealTime release note for late-breaking installation issues.