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  85   <li>Created auto install script for Linux</li>
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  87                   <h2>Automating Clearcase Installs</h2>
  88
  89 <p>Often you want to easily and quickly be able to install Clearcase on systems. Of course, there are lots of considerations, hence lots of parameters to consider. IBM/Rational's solution to this is <i>install_release</i> which is really just a script that calls <i>inst_rls</i>, yet another Perl script, to do the installation. As it does it prompts for parameters and performs the install. But it would be nice to be able to run through the prompts once, answering all the questions for a batch of similarly configured machines, then run that install on those machines.</p>
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  91 <p>Now IBM/Rational even thought of this and <i>install_release</i> has a facility to perform multiple installs remotely to a bunch of machines. But you may not have all of those machines up and running nor identified.</p>
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  93 <p>Or you may wish to automate the process yourself, scripting a solution that queries other things to determine exactly which type of install to do.</p>
  94
  95 <h3>Running install_release with -echo_cmd_only</h3>
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  97 <p>While no longer documented, running <i>install_release</i> with the parameter  -echo_cmd_only causes <i>install_release</i> to run through all of the prompts and then it just spits out the full command line that will perform the install as specified. This command line can then be used as the basis for your own automation.</p>
  98
  99 <p>The following is a quick script to install Clearcase 6.x on Redhat systems:</p>
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 102 #!/bin/bash
 103 #
 104 # Quick script to install Clearcase 6.x on Redhat x86 64 bit
 105 #
 106 # Andrew@DeFaria.com
 107
 108 if [ $(id -u) != 0 ]; then
 109   echo "ERROR: You must be root to install Clearcase"
 110   exit 1
 111 fi
 112
 113 # Define some parameters that might be changing
 114 registry_region=cclinux
 115 registry_host=cclinux
 116 license_host=cclic
 117 release_path=/net/cclinux/opt/clearcase/ccrel6.0_pXX_rhat/2003.06.00/rhat_x86
 118 release_area=$release_path/clearcase/install
 119 logfile=/tmp/Rational_install.$(date +%y%m%d.%M.%S)
 120
 121 cd $release_area
 122
 123 # Now install
 124 ./install_release      \
 125   -nlog                \
 126   -rbh Unknown         \
 127   -comp
 128 ratl_perl,atria_perl,atria_install,atria_basement,atria_cplus_shlib,
 129 atria_base,CC_base,atria_X11_base,CC_client,atria_server,
 130 atria_cplus_base,atria_gui,CC_doc,CC_bld_client,CC_vob_svr,
 131 CC_view_svr,CC_int_client,CC_gui_client,CC_cnv_client,CC_MIN_STD,
 132 CC_ONLY_SERVER,MS_shipping_server,CC_FULL,MS_all,MS_FULL   \
 133   -rr $registry_region \
 134   -to /opt/rational    \
 135   -rebuild_vnode 0     \
 136   -log $logfile        \
 137   -level 5             \
 138   -from $release_path  \
 139   -patch_kernel 0      \
 140   -rh $registry_host   \
 141   -local               \
 142   -model full          \
 143   -lh $license_host    \
 144   -no_query
 145 </pre></div>
 146
 147 <h3>Notes:</h3>
 148
 149 <ol>
 150   <li>I inserted a little check at the top to make sure you're root when you run this script. You need to be root to install Clearcase</li>
 151
 152   <li>I've defined a few variables that might change like the release area, registry host, registry region, etc.</li>
 153
 154   <li>Needed to add -no_query to get this install script to not stop querying for further options. This has been observed on Linux only.</li>
 155
 156   <li>All -comp components need to specified on one line, separated by comma with no spaces. It has been broken up above for readability purposes only.</li>
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