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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 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.
Installing the product
Installing the product involves verifying requirements, planning, performing pre-installation tasks and managing licenses.
Installation tasks
This section provides the instructions for installing the License Key Administrator (LKAD), License Key Server, and the product. You must have a minimum configuration with Rational® Test RealTime, and License Key Administrator (LKAD) installed on your computer. A full installation is including Rational Test RealTime, License Key Administrator (LKAD) and License Key Server.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install the IBM® Rational® Test RealTime software.
- Installing
  This section provides the instructions for installing 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.
  - 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.
    - Pre-installation Tasks
      Before you install the product, you need to prepare or configure your computer.
    - Installation tasks
      This section provides the instructions for installing the License Key Administrator (LKAD), License Key Server, and the product. You must have a minimum configuration with Rational® Test RealTime, and License Key Administrator (LKAD) installed on your computer. A full installation is including Rational Test RealTime, License Key Administrator (LKAD) and License Key Server.
      - Downloading license keys
      - Installing the product from the launchpad
        The launchpad program provides you with a single location to view release information and start the installation process.
      - Updating software
        You can search for product updates and install the updates for your product.
      - Uninstalling software
        Use Installation Manager to uninstall your product. If no other products are installed, you can uninstall Installation Manager also.
  - 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.

Installation tasks

This section provides the instructions for installing the License Key Administrator (LKAD), License Key Server, and the product. You must have a minimum configuration with Rational® Test RealTime, and License Key Administrator (LKAD) installed on your computer. A full installation is including Rational® Test RealTime, License Key Administrator (LKAD) and License Key Server.

If you need to download the installation files, follow the procedure described in Downloading and extracting the installation files, then install from the launchpad Installing the product from the launchpad.