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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.
Planning the installation
After verifying hardware, software, and user privilege requirements, plan the features and software that you want to install.
Installation considerations
Part of planning entails making decisions about installation locations, working with other applications, extending Eclipse, upgrading, migrating, and configuring help content.
Installing with your Eclipse instance
The product package that you install using Installation Manager comes with a version of Eclipse, which is the base platform of this product package. If you already have an Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) installed on your workstation, after installing the product, you can add your product package directly to that other Eclipse installation and extend the functions of your Eclipse IDE by installing Rational® Test RealTime from a local update site.
Installing the product from an update site
You can expand a third-party Eclipse-based IDE by installing Rational® Test RealTime from an update site.

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.
    - Installation conventions and terminology
      Understanding these terms and conventions can help you take full advantage of the installation information and your product.
    - Installation roadmap
      The installation roadmap lists the high-level steps for installing your product.
    - Installation Manager overview
      IBM® 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.
      - Installation locations
        IBM® Installation Manager retrieves product packages from specified repositories and installs the products into selected locations, referred to as package groups.
      - Coexistence considerations
        Some products are designed to coexist and share functions when they are installed in the same package group. A package group is a location where you can install one or more software product packages.
      - Installing with your Eclipse instance
        The product package that you install using Installation Manager comes with a version of Eclipse, which is the base platform of this product package. If you already have an Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) installed on your workstation, after installing the product, you can add your product package directly to that other Eclipse installation and extend the functions of your Eclipse IDE by installing Rational® Test RealTime from a local update site.
        Installing the product from an update site
        You can expand a third-party Eclipse-based IDE by installing Rational® Test RealTime from an update site.
    - Migrating from previous versions of Rational® Test RealTime
      Test scripts and projects from previous versions of Rational® Test RealTime continue to work with the Studio user interface and the command line tools. The current version of Studio can open and run all assets that you created with previous versions of the product.
  - 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 the product from an update site

You can expand a third-party Eclipse-based IDE by installing Rational® Test RealTime from an update site.

About this task

To integrate Rational® Test RealTime for Eclipse IDE into a third-party Eclipse-based IDE such as Wind River Workbench or Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio, you can install the plug-ins from a local Eclipse update site. The update site is a folder installed with the product.

Note: Compatibility of Rational® Test RealTime with third party workbench environments depends on the availability of several extensions in those workbenches. Dependencies include Eclipse EMF, Eclipse GEF, and Eclipse CDT.

Procedure

To install the product from the local update site:

Proceed with a default Installation of the product in its own product group.
A local update site is created alongside the product install.
Launch the third-party Eclipse workbench and click Help > Install New Software.
Click Add, type a name for the update site, click Local and select the directory: <installation directory>\TestRealTime\IBM Rational Test RealTime for Eclipse IDE update site\
Select all the features listed in the update site and click Next.
Approve the licensing agreement and click Next.
After installing the product, restart the workbench.