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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.
Planning the installation
After verifying hardware, software, and user privilege requirements, plan the features and software that you want to install.

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.
    - 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.
    - Migrating from previous versions
      Test scripts and projects from previous versions of Rational® Test RealTime continue to work with the Rational Test RealTime Studio user interface and the command line tools. The current version of Rational Test RealTime 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.

Planning the installation

After verifying hardware, software, and user privilege requirements, plan the features and software that you want to install.

Planning features

You can customize your product by selecting which features to install.

When you install the product package by using IBM® Installation Manager, the installation wizard displays the features in the available product package. From the features list, you can select which to install. A default set of features is selected for you (including any required features). Installation Manager automatically enforces any dependencies between features and prevents you from clearing any required features.

Tip: After you finish installing the package, you can still add or remove features from your software product by running the Modify Packages wizard in Installation Manager.

Planning compilers

During the installation process, the product scans your system for existing compilers. It is important that all compilers and development environments that you plan to use with Rational® Test RealTime are installed beforehand.

Note: If you plan to use Rational® Test RealTime on Windows™ with Microsoft™ Visual Studio, you must install Visual Studio and run it at least once before installing Rational® Test RealTime to correctly initialize the Windows™ registry database. See Support for Microsoft Visual Studio