Interactive installation guide for Rational Publishing Engine

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Select the options that best describe your installation environment.

Select one or more products to use as a data source:
Select one or more of the Rational Publishing Engine applications and components to install and configure:
  • Optional: This application is optional to install. You must install an application server and Rational Publishing Engine with the RPE Remote services feature before deploying the Document Builder. You can use the Document Builder to build, generate, and view documents.
  • Required: This application is required to install, even on servers where remote document generation is set up. In the Launcher, you create document specifications to organize the details required to generate the output document from the templates that are designed in Document Studio.
  • Optional: This application is optional to install and is only necessary on computers where templates are to be designed. In Document Studio, you create templates to provide the structure and formatting for the data that is included in the output document.

To install and configure Rational Publishing Engine and related products:

Verify the system and licensing requirements

From the topic System requirements

From the topic License requirements

Install your data source

Refer to the Rational Change documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational Clearcase documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational ClearQuest documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational DOORS documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational Quality Manager documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational DOORS Next Generation documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational RequisitePro documentation for more information about installing the product.

Refer to the Rational Rhapsody documentation for more information about installing the product.

Note: If you use Rational Rhapsody with Design Management, you can connect Rational Publishing Engine to Design Management instead of directly to Rational Rhapsody. You might find Design Management easier to create templates in situations where you are using published models in Design Management and not in Rational Rhapsody itself.

Refer to the Rational Team Concert documentation for more information about installing the product.

Install your application server

From the topic Application servers

Install the Rational Publishing Engine components and features

Deploying the Document Builder on your application server.

Configuring users for the Document Builder on your application server

Configuring authentication for the Document Builder

From the topic Configuring authentication for the Document Builder

Configure the Rational DOORS and Rational Publishing Engine installations

From the topic Extracting Rational DOORS data with DXL security settings

From the topic Configuring the Rational DOORS path for remote publishing

Verify that the web applications deployed successfully

From the topic Verify the automatic deployment of the remote applications

Deploy the Reporting data services adapters

Configure the Reporting data services adapters

Configure the help content

From the topic Configuring the help content

Troubleshooting your installation

From the topic this topic