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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.
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.
User privileges requirements
You must have a user ID that meets the following requirements before you can install Rational® Test RealTime.

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.
    - Hardware and Software requirements
      Before you install the product, verify that your system meets the hardware and software requirements.
    - User privileges requirements
      You must have a user ID that meets the following requirements before you can install 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.

User privileges requirements

You must have a user ID that meets the following requirements before you can install Rational® Test RealTime.

Your user ID must not contain double-byte characters.
You must install Installation Manager as an administrator on Windows if the version of your operating system requires user privileges to install or update product offerings, or install license keys for your products.
If you install Installation Manager as an administrator on Windows, all products installed from Installation Manager must be run with the administrator privilege. In this case, you must run Rational® Test RealTime as an administrator.
If you install Installation Manager as a non-administrator on Windows, Rational® Test RealTime can be installed with the same User account as the one used to install Installation Manager.
You can enable users who are not the administrator so that they can work with Rational® Test RealTime on some versions of Windows. If you are in such a case:
- Do not install Rational® Test RealTime into a package group (installation location) in the Program Files directory (C:\Program Files\) and do not choose a shared resources directory in the Program Files directory.
- If you are extending an existing Eclipse installation, then do not install Eclipse in the Program Files directory (C:\Program Files\).
On Linux, you must be able to log in as root (with sudo) to install and run Rational® Test RealTime.
On Ubuntu, you must ensure that the environment variables that are set while installing the products are retained when you open Rational® Test RealTime and the application-under-test.
Rational® License Key Administrator must be installed onWindows™ at the same time or prior to Rational® Test RealTime so that the license information entered during Rational® Test RealTime installation is valid. Rational® License Key Administrator requires Administrator privileges. If you need to install the Rational® License Key Administrator client on Windows™ with a User account, right-click the launchpad.exe file, and click Run as Administrator or install the Rational® License Key Administrator separately with an Administrator account.