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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install IBM® Rational® Functional Tester software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Installing
In this section, you will learn about two ways to install the product. In the first approach, you use an executable file to directly install the product in an easy manner. In the second approach, you download and install IBM® Installation Manager and then use that tool to install the product.
Installing the product using IBM® Installation Manager
In this section, you will learn the pre-installation, installation, and post-installation tasks to install the product by using IBM® Installation Manager.
Planning the installation
Read all the topics in this section before you begin to install or update any of the product features. Effective planning and an understanding of the key aspects of the installation process can help ensure a successful installation.
Installation considerations
Part of planning entails making decisions about installation locations, working with other applications, extending Eclipse, upgrading, migrating, and configuring help content.
Installation repositories
IBM® Installation Manager retrieves product packages from specified repository locations.
Setting repository preferences in Installation Manager
When you download and install Installation Manager separately, you must specify the repository preference (the URL for the directory that contains the product package) in Installation Manager before you can install the product package.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install IBM® Rational® Functional Tester software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installing
  In this section, you will learn about two ways to install the product. In the first approach, you use an executable file to directly install the product in an easy manner. In the second approach, you download and install IBM® Installation Manager and then use that tool to install the product.
  - Installation requirements
    This section details hardware, software, and user privilege requirements that must be met in order to successfully install and run Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Installing the product using IBM® Installation Manager
    In this section, you will learn the pre-installation, installation, and post-installation tasks to install the product by using IBM® Installation Manager.
    - Installation terminology
      Understanding these terms can help you take full advantage of the installation information and your Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Planning the installation
      Read all the topics in this section before you begin to install or update any of the product features. Effective planning and an understanding of the key aspects of the installation process can help ensure a successful installation.
      - 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.
        Planning what features to install
        You can customize your software product by selecting which features of Rational® Functional Tester to install.
        Extending an existing Eclipse IDE
        When you install the Rational® Functional Tester product package, you can choose to extend an Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) already installed on your computer by adding the functions that the Rational Functional Tester package contains.
        Installation repositories
        IBM® Installation Manager retrieves product packages from specified repository locations.
        Setting repository preferences in Installation Manager
        When you download and install Installation Manager separately, you must specify the repository preference (the URL for the directory that contains the product package) in Installation Manager before you can install the product package.
    - Preinstallation tasks
      Before you install the product, you might need to prepare or configure your computer.
    - Installing software
      This section provides the instructions for installing IBM® Installation Manager and the product as well as installation verification.
    - Post-installation tasks
      After you have installed your product package, complete the post-installation tasks or configure your product package as required.
    - Installation in the shell sharing mode
      You can install HCL OneTest™ UI in the same package group with the other supported Eclipse-based products. These products share a common environment, or they are shell shared. Shell shared products have a common installation directory, <install_directory>\IBM\SDP. HCL OneTest UI installs as a perspective in the UI of the product with which it is shell-shared.
    - Modifying installations
      The Modify Packages wizard in the IBM® Installation Manager enables you to change the language and feature selections of an installed product package. You can also use the Modify Packages wizard to install new features that might be included in a package update, such as a refresh pack.
    - Uninstalling Rational® Functional Tester
      The Uninstall Packages option in the Installation Manager enables you to uninstall packages from a single installation location. You can also uninstall all the installed packages from every installation location.
  - Installation of the product software by using the stand-alone installer
    This guide intended for an administrator and describes how to install the product by using stand-alone installer on different operating systems.
  - Uninstalling the product software by using the stand-alone installer
    When you no longer require the software, you can use the stand-alone installer to uninstall the products that you have installed.
  - Upgrading and migrating
    You can upgrade to IBM® Rational® Functional Tester V10.1.2 either from V10.1.0 or V10.1.1.
  - Managing Licenses
    Licensing for your HCL software is administered through HCL® License & Delivery portal. This portal is FlexNet-based web application to manage software entitlements and licenses.
- Starting Rational® Functional Tester from the command line
  You can start Rational® Functional Tester from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.
- Integrations in Web UI Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
- Integrations in Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.

Setting repository preferences in Installation Manager

When you download and install Installation Manager separately, you must specify the repository preference (the URL for the directory that contains the product package) in Installation Manager before you can install the product package.

Before you begin

Before starting the installation process, be sure to obtain the installation package repository URL from your administrator.

Procedure

To add, edit, or remove a repository location in Installation Manager:

Start Installation Manager.
On the Start page of Installation Manager, click File > Preferences, and then click Repositories.
The Repositories page opens, showing any available repositories, their locations, and whether they are accessible.
On the Repositories page, click Add Repository.
In the Add repository window, type the URL of the repository location or browse to it and set a file path.
Click OK. If you provided an HTTPS or restricted FTP repository location, then you will be prompted to enter a user ID and password.
The new or changed repository location is listed. If the repository is not accessible, a red x is displayed in the Accessible column.
Click OK to exit.

What to do next

Note: For Installation Manager to search the default repository locations for the installed packages, ensure the preference Search service repositories during installation and updates on the Repositories preference page is selected. This preference is selected by default.