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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.
Starting Rational® Test RealTime
You can start your product from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.

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.

Starting Rational® Test RealTime

You can start your product from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.

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For Microsoft™ Windows™ operating systems:

Click Start > Programs > > to start Rational® Test RealTime for Eclipse IDE.
Click Start > Programs > > to start Rational® Test RealTime Studio for testing C, C++, Ada.
To start Rational® Test RealTime for Eclipse IDE from a command line, type this command: <installation_directory>\eclipse.exe -product com.ibm.rational.testrealtime.product.ide.
To start IBM® Rational® Test RealTime Studio from a command line, type this command: <installation_directory>\bin\intel\win32\studio.exe

If the installation location or Shared Resources directory for your product is in a directory in the path C:\Program Files, you can run the product only as the administrator. To run as administrator, right-click the program shortcut, and click Run as administrator.

Note: From Windows™ 7 and later versions, the Program Files directory is usually virtualized in order to allow users who are not running as the administrator to have write access to this protected directory. However, the virtualization workaround is not compatible with your product. If you selected an installation location or shared resources directory in the path C:\Program Files\ and you do not want to require running your product as Administrator, complete one of these steps:

Reinstall your product and any other programs that sharing the same installation location, and select an installation location that is not in the path C:\Program Files\.
Reinstall your product and all Software Delivery Platform product packages (regardless of their installation location), and select a shared resources directory and installation locations that are not in the path C:\Program Files\

For UNIX™ operating systems:

To start Rational® Test RealTime for Eclipse IDE from a sh or bash shell, type this command: <installation_directory>/start_visualtest.sh
To start IBM® Rational® Test RealTime Studio from a sh or bash shell, type this command: <installation_directory>/start_testrt.sh