IBM® Installation Manager is
a program for installing, updating, and modifying packages. It helps
you to manage the IBM applications,
or packages, that it installs on your computer. Installation
Manager also
helps you to keep track of what you have installed, determine what
is available for you to install, and to organize installation directories.
Installation
Manager provides
features that help you keep packages up to date, modify packages,
manage the licenses for your packages, and uninstall packages. It
includes six wizards that make it easy to maintain packages:
- The Install wizard walks you through the installation process.
You can install a package by simply accepting the defaults or you
can modify the default settings to create a custom installation. Before
you install, you get a complete summary of your selections throughout
the wizard. Using the wizard, you can install one or more packages
at one time.
- The Update wizard searches for available updates to packages
that you have installed. An update might be a released fix, a new
feature, or a new version of the product. Details of the contents
of the update are provided in the wizard. You can choose whether to
apply an update. The Update wizard searches connected repositories
for updates. If you are not connected to the Internet, you may not
see newly available updates for your installed products. To apply
an update to a computer that is not connected to the Internet, you
must download the update and extract it to a local repository.
- The Modify wizard helps you modify certain elements of
a package that you have already installed. During the first installation
of the package, you select the features that you want to install.
Later, if you require other features, you can use the modify packages
wizard to add them to your package. You can also remove features and
add or remove languages.
- The Manage Licenses wizard helps you set up the licenses
for your packages. Use this wizard to change your trial license to
a full license, to set up your servers for floating licenses, and
to select which type of license to use for each package. Some IBM Rational® testing
products require runtime floating license keys to run tests with multiple
virtual users and to use product extensions such as protocols. Runtime
floating license keys are not managed using Installation
Manager.
Use the License Key Administrator program (which is available on separate
media) to manage runtime floating license keys.
- The Roll Back wizard helps you to revert to a previous
version of a package.
- The Uninstall wizard removes a package from your computer.
You can uninstall more than one package at a time.