Installers and setup types for DOORS

When you install IBM® Engineering Requirements Management DOORS® (DOORS), depending on what you want to install, you use different installers and setup types.
Depending on your setup, you might use one or more of these installers:
DOORS client installer
You use this installer to install the DOORS client on the local computer. You can also use this installer to install DOORS integrations and the IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS - Web Access (DWA) interoperation server.

You can install the DOORS client on Windows systems only. However, if you want to install the DWA interoperation server, you can install it on Linux systems.

In addition, you can install DOORS on a Citrix environment. In this scenario, an administrator installs DOORS in a central location and then users can run the client as a remote desktop from multiple locations.

When you use a ping network utility and the echo requests and replies between the DOORS database server and the client take more than 50 milliseconds, a Citrix environment can improve performance.

When you use this installer, you can run a typical or custom setup. For more information about setup types, see Table 1.

DOORS database server installer
You use this installer to install the DOORS database server on Windows, Linux systems. When you use this installer, you can run a typical or custom setup. For more information about setup types, see Table 1.
Table 1. Types of DOORS installations
Software to install Installation details Installer Setup type
DOORS client

The client can access a database that is on the local computer or on a networked computer.

The DOORS help system is installed as part of the client installation.

DOORS client installer Typical
DOORS interoperation server

The DOORS interoperation server is one of the components that are required to run DWA.

When you run the DOORS client with the -interop command-line parameter, your system recognizes it as a DOORS interoperation server.

DOORS client installer Typical
DOORS database server

You install the DOORS database server on a local computer, and then set up the DOORS client to access the database server from a local or remote computer.

DOORS server installer Typical

Feedback