Installing and upgrading Rational® Functional Tester in silent mode

In silent mode installation, you can install or upgrade Rational® Functional Tester from the command line by using response files rather than using the IBM® Installation Manager graphical user interface.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

  • Verified that your computer meets the system requirements.
  • Ensured that your computer is connected to the internet.
  • Downloaded the product bits.
  • Downloaded and installed IBM® Installation Manager.

About this task

You can install Rational® Functional Tester from the installation media or from a download package that is on the IBM® Passport Advantage® site .

Note: You can upgrade the product to V10.0.1 from the previous version. After installing V10.0.1, at any time if you want to use V10.0.0, you can roll back from V10.0.1 to V10.0.0.

Procedure

To installor upgrade Rational® Functional Tester in silent mode:
  1. Create a response file that contains the commands and inputs for the installation process.
  2. Install Rational® Functional Tester by using the response file and IBM® Installation Manager installer:
    • If you have already installed IBM® Installation Manager:
      1. Change to the following directory: eclipse\tools. For example: cd C:\Program Files\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse\tools.
      2. Enter the installation command:
        • On Windows systems: imcl.exe input response_file_path_and_name -log log_file_path_and_name -acceptLicense
        • On Linux systems:./imcl input response_file_path_and_name -log llog_file_path_and_name -acceptLicense
    • If you have a complete Rational® Functional Tester package that also contains IBM® Installation Manager, you can browse to the folder that contains the installation file of IBM® Installation Manager. You can also download IBM® Installation Manager that is required for installing Rational® Functional Tester from the IBM website.
      1. Change to the following directory: InstallerImage_platform directory.
      2. Enter the installation command:
        • On Windows systems: installc.exe input response_file_path_and_name -log log_file_path_and_name -acceptLicense
        • On Linux systems: ./installc input response_file_path_and_name -log log_file_path_and_name -acceptLicense