Placing Rational Functional Tester on an HTTP Web server: task overview

To prepare Rational® Functional Tester for installation from a repository located on an HTTP Web server:
  1. Ensure that your HTTP or HTTPS Web server has sufficient disk space to store the product package. Refer to Hardware requirements.
  2. Ensure that your workstation has sufficient disk space to store both the files you must download from IBM Passport Advantage® and the extracted installation image. Refer to Hardware requirements
  3. Download all required parts for the product image from IBM Passport Advantage to a temporary directory on your workstation.
  4. Extract the installation image from the downloaded files into another temporary directory on your workstation and verify that the installation image is complete. See Verifying and extracting electronic images for details.
  5. Install on your workstation the IBM Packaging Utility from the Enterprise Deployment CD (or electronic disk) appropriate for your platform.
  6. Using the Packaging Utility, copy the Rational Functional Tester product package.
  7. Copy the output of the Packaging Utility to an HTTP or HTTPS Web Server.
  8. Copy the installation files for IBM Installation Manager from the Enterprise Deployment CD to a shared drive.
  9. Instruct users in your organization to install Installation Manager.
  10. Provide users the URL for the repository that contains the Rational Functional Tester product package you created earlier.

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