Software requirements

Before you install the product, verify that your system meets the software requirements.
To view the requirements, from the system requirements list, select the current version of the product.

What's included with Rational Asset Manager

The installation media includes the following applications:
  • IBM® Rational® Asset Manager: For a list of all the application files included on the media, see Retrieving the server application files directly from the installation media.
  • IBM Installation Manager: If you already have Installation Manager installed, it is detected when you launch Installation Manager from the launchpad application on the installation media.
  • IBM Rational Team Concert™: This application is included to support the required integration between Rational Asset Manager and Rational Team Concert™. However, only a single developer license is included. That license is sufficient for the integration with Rational Asset Manager.
  • IBM Rational License Key Server

Application server requirements

You must have a supported application server. You will deploy the web applications for Rational Asset Manager onto an application server.

For WebSphere® Application Server, a single application server and clustered deployments are supported.

Restriction: To create and use a cluster of application servers, you must have IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (ND).

Database application requirements

A database application is required for the Rational Asset Manager server. You can use any of the supported databases with an installation of the Rational Asset Manager server that is installed on any of the supported application servers.

License server requirements

To distribute licenses, you must install and use Rational License Server. You will install your licenses onto Rational License Server. After you deploy Rational Asset Manager, you must configure the Rational Asset Manager web application to communicate with Rational License Server.

Required integration: Rational Team Concert

Rational Asset Manager requires Rational Team Concert. The Rational Team Concert application manages the lifecycle processes for assets in Rational Asset Manager. We include a limited version of Rational Team Concert that you can install and use, or you can extend an existing Rational Team Concert server application to work with Rational Asset Manager. For more information see Integrating Rational Team Concert with Rational Asset Manager.

The Rational Team Concert server application cannot be deployed as part of a WebSphere Application Server cluster. However, you can create a stand-alone application server. See Creating an application server instance for Rational Team Concert on a WebSphere Application Server distributed server cluster.

Web browser requirements

A supported web browser is required to view the Rational Asset Manager web client and the documentation, and to support the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) browser widget.

Additional software requirements

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Adobe Flash Player, to view multimedia help, such as tours, tutorials, and demonstrations
    • For Windows Version 6.0 release 65 or later
    • For Linux Version 6.0 release 69 or later
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