Planning the deployment and installation

Before installing Rational® ClearQuest®, complete planning tasks to determine what ClearQuest components to install, review system requirements, and complete required and optional configuration tasks to prepare your environment for the ClearQuest installation process.

Table 1 provides an overview of installation planning and configuration tasks to complete before installing the Rational ClearQuest software.

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Table 1. Installation planning tasks
Task	Client and/or Server	Information	Comment
Select your clients	Client	Select Rational ClearQuest clients to deploy
Decide on the feature level for schemas and user databases	Server	Decide on the feature level for schema repositories and databases Features in the feature levels	Feature level 7 supports Full-text search, Pessimistic record locking, and FIPS 140-2 compliant data encryption.
Determine the number of schema repositories and user databases	Client Server	Plan your Rational ClearQuest database set architecture
If you are using Rational ClearQuest MultiSite to replicate databases to multiple locations, you must implement a MultiSite configuration.	Server	Administering Rational ClearQuest MultiSite	A MultiSite configuration includes the DevOps Shipping Server and synchronization servers at a master site and at one or more replica sites.
Determine method of authentication.	Server	Manage user accounts and Using LDAP with Rational ClearQuest	You can use traditional Rational ClearQuest authentication or use the industry standard Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to authenticate using an LDAP directory server.
Planning to integrate Rational ClearQuest with other products.	Server	Integrating Rational ClearQuest with other products
Check that your environment has the supported Vendor databases and platforms.	Client Server	Hardware, software, and database requirements
Perform any platform configuration requirements depending on the platforms you are deploying to.	Server	Prerequisite tasks by platform
Determine whether you will enable full-text search	Server	Configuring and maintaining full-text search	Full-text search is a Rational ClearQuest server feature. When full-text search is installed and configured, users can run full-text search operations to find information in the Rational ClearQuest client applications.
Determine your reporting strategy with the Rational ClearQuest reporting capabilities.	Server	Planning and configuring the reporting environment
Configure your vendor databases	Server	Vendor database configuration
Configure your license servers	Server	Licensing requirements