The following requirements are for an IBM® Rational® Synergy session host, which runs Rational Synergy sessions for IBM Rational Change. You can run Rational Synergy and Rational Change on the same machine. For maximum performance, run Rational Synergy sessions on the database server.
Hardware
The hardware requirements for each host running a session are described in the Rational Change v5.3 readme.
If you expect many users for your IBM Rational Change installation, you can increase capacity by dedicating additional Rational Synergy session hosts. To do so later, log on to a Rational Change session using the Admin interface. Then, change the host settings in the System Administration dialog box, in the Server tab.
Software
The software requirements for each host running a session are as follows:
- One of the supported operating systems must be installed and operational on the server. For information about supported platforms, see the Rational Change v5.3 readme.
- IBM Rational Synergy must be installed and operational. For detailed information about installing Rational Synergy, see the "Installing and upgrading" section of the IBM Rational Synergy information center.
The person installing IBM Rational Change must be in the local Administrators group.
- You must install the Rational Synergy server on each host on which Rational Synergy sessions runs.
All session hosts must be able to respond to remote execution requests using the rsh protocol on Rational Change UNIX servers, or the rexec protocol for Windows servers to UNIX databases.- When using the rsh protocol, the rshd daemons must be enabled.
- An alternative to rsh is the engine startup daemon (ESD).