lab-1) rad installation

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Mastering Web Application Development with Rational Application Developer v7 RD794/DEV452v1 August/2007 Lab Setup Guide

Lab Setup Guide for Classroom Delivery

Course materials may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the prior written permission of IBM.

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2004, 2007 Requirements 1

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The following tables list the hardware, software, and other materials needed to set up a lab to conduct a class for course RD794.

Hardware Requirements

Table 1 lists the hardware needed to prepare one student lab set. When preparing for a class, multiply the items below by the number of lab systems needed for the class.

Software Requirements

Table 2 lists the software needed to prepare the student and instructor lab sets. When preparing for a class, be sure you have the correct number of licensed copies of any non-IBM software.

Table 1: Hardware for one student or instructor lab set

Platform Use Machine RequirementsMinimum Memory

Minimum Disk Space

Features

Student1.0 GHz Pentium III or higher

1024 MB 10 GB

LAN-attached or loopback support (the TCP/IP stack must be installed)

Instructor1.0 GHz Pentium III or higher

1024 MB 10 GB

LAN-attached or loopback support (the TCP/IP stack must be installed)

Table 2: Software for Instructor and Student Systems

Platform UseOperating System

OS Version ApplicationsApplication Version

Licensing Requirement

StudentWindows XP Professionala

Service Pack 2

Site must provide for private offerings



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Skills Required to Set Up the Lab

The following specialized skills are required to set up the lab:

• Installer must be familiar with installing products on Windows XP and must be familiar with the administration and customization of Windows XP.

IBM Rational Application Developer

Version 7.0

WebSphere Application Server

Version 6.0

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Version 5.0 or later


WinZip or equivalent

8.0 or later


Instructor Same as student systema. All testing of these instructions and all testing of the lab exercises were conducted on systems running Win-dows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. All of the products listed above are supported on Windows NT run-ning at Service Pack 6a or higher, and on Windows 2000. The world-wide standard for this course is WindowsXP with SP2 applied. If other versions of Windows are required, it is up to the individual geographies to buildappropriate images and to test the labs and verify that they work in these environments. Because of differencesbetween Windows XP and other Windows versions, some operating system specific instructions in the lab ex-ercises may need to be modified when running with Windows NT or Windows 2000.

Table 2: Software for Instructor and Student Systems

Platform UseOperating System

OS Version ApplicationsApplication Version

Licensing Requirement



© Copyright IBM Corp. 2004, 2007 Set Up Instructions 3

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Configuration Information

The following sections describe the configurations of the student and lab systems.

Hardware Set Up Instructions

Use the following information in addition to the normal hardware installation procedures to set up the lab hardware.

__ 1. No special hardware setup is required other than the requirement for network (LAN) connectivity. If network connectivity is not available, you must still have the loopback adapter and TCP/IP stack installed, and you must be able to PING localhost. Internet access is preferred, as instructors may wish to demonstrate concepts with real-world examples.

Software Setup Instructions

Use the following information in addition to the normal software installation procedures to set up the lab software.

__ 1. Setting up Windows XP Professional1

__ a. Install Windows XP Professional (if not already installed).

__ b. Make sure that networking support is installed. If the system does not have a network adapter, the loopback adapter must be installed. If the loopback adapter is installed, it should be set with an IP address of 192.168.1.1 (or 10.0.0.1, if the 192.168.x.y range is used locally) and a mask of 255.255.255.0.

__ c. If networking support has been installed, it is recommended that students have access to the Internet. This allows them to access WebSphere and Rational related Web sites during the course.

__ d. Choose an appropriate local administrator ID and password. This must be made known to the instructor, who must inform the students (“userid” and “password” should no longer be used, according to IBM internal regulations).

__ e. Set the paging file size to an initial size of 2048 MB (or twice the memory size, whatever is bigger); set the maximum size to the same value. (Start up System from the Control Panel, select the Advanced tab, and click Performance Options... and then click Change... under the Virtual memory section.) It is best to install the pagefile on a partition by itself. The partition should be about 50 to 100 MB larger than the pagefile itself. After the paging file has been initialized,

1 See comments in the Software Requirements section about the use of other Windows systems. These are not supported environmentsfor this course, but they are supported environments for the products to be installed. Course support of Windows systems other thanWindows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 is up to the individual geographies that want to run them.




make sure that the page file on the original system drive is reduced to a size of about 10 MB (both minimum and maximum). File system for this partition is less important.

__ 2. Install Windows XP Service Pack 2(SP2).

__ 3. Install critical Microsoft Windows security updates.

__ 4. Log on with the userid and password chosen in step 1d above.

__ 5. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader, Version 5.0 (or higher).

__ 6. Install WinZip, Version 8.0 (or higher).

__ 7. Install the IBM Installation Manager.

__ a. Insert the IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software CD 1 into the CD drive to begin the installation. If autorun has been disabled, run launchpad.exe from the CD.

__ b. Click the Install IBM Rational Application Developer V7.0 link.

__ c. After a few moments, the IBM Installation Manager appears. Click Next.

__ d. Select the I Accept the terms in the license agreement radio button and click Next.




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__ f. Click Install on the next page to install IBM Installation Manager.

__ g. After the installation has completed, click Finish to close the IBM Installation Manager window.

__ 8. The IBM Installation Manager window should open automatically. Install the IBM Rational Application Developer package using the IBM Installation Manager.

__ a. If the window does not open automatically, click Start Menu �Programs �IBM Installation Manager �IBM Installation Manager.

__ b. On the Install Packages page, select the IBM Rational Application Developer check box.

__ c. Click Next.




__ d. Select the I Accept the terms in the license agreement radio button and click Next.

__ e. On the first Location page, change the Shared Resources Directory to C:\IBM\SDP70Shared.

__ f. Click Next.

__ g. On the second Location page, change the Package Group Installation Directory to C:\IBM\SDP70.




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__ i. On the next page, click Next to accept the defaults. You are not extending an existing installation of Eclipse.

__ j. On the next Features page, click Next to accept the default language - English.

__ k. On the next Features page accept the defaults. Make sure that IBM WebSphere application Server, version 6.1 is selected.

__ l. Click Next.




__ m. On the Summary page, verify the settings and click Install.

__ n. Once the installation is done, click None and click Finish. Do not start IBM Rational Application at this time.

__ 9. Once Application Developer is installed, the final step is to use the IBM Installation Manager to install the Activation Kit to license the product.

__ a. Click Start Menu �Programs �IBM Installation Manager �IBM Installation Manager.




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__ c. On the Manage Licenses page, click Import product Activation Kit. Click Next.




__ d. On the Import Activation Kit page, click Browse and navigate to the folder with the installation files. Locate and choose the RADLic.jar file. Click Next.

__ e. On the Licenses page, select the I Accept the terms in the license agreement radio button and click Finish.

__ f. Click Finish once again.

__ 10. Close any open installation windows.

__ 11. Unzip file LabFiles70.zip to C:\. Make sure you expand all of the files and keep the directories. Verify that the following subdirectories are created in C:\LabFiles70:

- database (empty)

- setup

- snippets

- solutions

- workspace (empty)

__ 12. For user convenience, create a shortcut to the Rational Application Developer executable on the Windows desktop. It should be called “Rational Application Developer” and point to the following location:

"C:\IBM\SDP70\eclipse.exe" -showlocation -setworkspace

Students may drop workspace folders on this icon to open them with Application Developer. The location of the workspace is displayed in the title bar of the workbench window.




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LSG Verification and Cleanup Instructions

These instructions are used to verify the proper Services configurations, as well as the basic operations of the installed products.

__ 1. Verify that IBM Rational Application Developer starts.

__ a. Start the program: Start �Programs �IBM Software Development Platform �IBM Rational Application Developer �IBM Rational Application Developer.

__ b. The Eclipse splash screen should be displayed, followed by the Application Developer GUI.

__ c. Close the program.

__ 2. Remove any downloaded installation files and installation folders created during extraction of zipped installation files.

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