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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.
Pre-installation Tasks
Before you install the product, you need to prepare or configure your computer.
Pre-installation tasks for Studio
Before you install your product, review the following information and ensure that all the pre-installation steps are completed as required.

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.
      - Installing required libraries on Ubuntu
        Before you install Rational® Test RealTime on Ubuntu, you must install some libraries.
      - Pre-installation tasks for Studio
        Before you install your product, review the following information and ensure that all the pre-installation steps are completed as required.
        Installing Exuberant Ctags
        Before using Rational® Test RealTime Studio on Windows™, you must ensure that Exuberant Ctags is installed on your computer and that the directory containing Ctags binary files is set in the PATH environment variable.
        Installing Cygwin
        Before using Rational® Test RealTime Studio on Windows™, you must ensure that Cygwin is installed on your computer and that the directory containing Cygwin binary files is set in the PATH environment variable.
        Support for Microsoft™ Visual Studio
        If you plan to use Rational® Test RealTime on Windows™ with Microsoft™ Visual Studio you must install Visual Studio and execute it at least once before installing Rational Test RealTime in order to correctly initialize the Windows registry database.
        Increasing the number of file handles on Linux™ workstations
        For best product performance, increase the number of file handles above the default of 1024 handles.
    - 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.
  - 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.

Pre-installation tasks for Studio

Before you install your product, review the following information and ensure that all the pre-installation steps are completed as required.

About this task

To help ensure a smooth installation process, complete these tasks before starting the installation tasks.

Procedure

For Rational® Test RealTime Studio support, you must first install Exuberant Ctags. See Installing Exuberant Ctags for more information.
Download and install Cygwin. See Installing Cygwin.
Ensure that your existing compilers and development environments are installed and run properly.
In particular, if you are using Microsoft™ Visual Studio, install and run it at least once before installing Rational® Test RealTime. See Support for Microsoft Visual Studio for more information.
For UNIX™: If you want the product to be used by users other than root, then set the umask variable to 0022 before you install the product. To set this variable, log in as root user, start a terminal session, and type umask 0022.
Install required libraries on Ubuntu. See Installing required libraries on Ubuntu.