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  48     dc:title="Automating Clearcase Installs"
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  50     dc:subject="General Dynamics"
  51     dc:description=" Created auto install script for Linux..."
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  58                      <h2 class="date-header">July 19, 2007</h2>
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  61                         <h3 class="entry-header">Automating Clearcase Installs</h3>
  62                         <div class="entry-content">
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  64                               <ul>
  65   <li>Created auto install script for Linux</li>
  66 </ul>
  67
  68                               <h2>Automating Clearcase Installs</h2>
  69
  70 <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>
  71
  72 <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>
  73
  74 <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>
  75
  76 <h3>Running install_release with -echo_cmd_only</h3>
  77
  78 <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>
  79
  80 <p>The following is a quick script to install Clearcase 6.x on Redhat systems:</p>
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  82 <div class=code><pre>
  83 #!/bin/bash
  84 #
  85 # Quick script to install Clearcase 6.x on Redhat x86 64 bit
  86 #
  87 # Andrew@DeFaria.com
  88
  89 if [ $(id -u) != 0 ]; then
  90   echo "ERROR: You must be root to install Clearcase"
  91   exit 1
  92 fi
  93
  94 # Define some parameters that might be changing
  95 registry_region=cclinux
  96 registry_host=cclinux
  97 license_host=cclic
  98 release_path=/net/cclinux/opt/clearcase/ccrel6.0_pXX_rhat/2003.06.00/rhat_x86
  99 release_area=$release_path/clearcase/install
 100 logfile=/tmp/Rational_install.$(date +%y%m%d.%M.%S)
 101
 102 cd $release_area
 103
 104 # Now install
 105 ./install_release      \
 106   -nlog                \
 107   -rbh Unknown         \
 108   -comp
 109 ratl_perl,atria_perl,atria_install,atria_basement,atria_cplus_shlib,
 110 atria_base,CC_base,atria_X11_base,CC_client,atria_server,
 111 atria_cplus_base,atria_gui,CC_doc,CC_bld_client,CC_vob_svr,
 112 CC_view_svr,CC_int_client,CC_gui_client,CC_cnv_client,CC_MIN_STD,
 113 CC_ONLY_SERVER,MS_shipping_server,CC_FULL,MS_all,MS_FULL   \
 114   -rr $registry_region \
 115   -to /opt/rational    \
 116   -rebuild_vnode 0     \
 117   -log $logfile        \
 118   -level 5             \
 119   -from $release_path  \
 120   -patch_kernel 0      \
 121   -rh $registry_host   \
 122   -local               \
 123   -model full          \
 124   -lh $license_host    \
 125   -no_query
 126 </pre></div>
 127
 128 <h3>Notes:</h3>
 129
 130 <ol>
 131   <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>
 132
 133   <li>I've defined a few variables that might change like the release area, registry host, registry region, etc.</li>
 134
 135   <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>
 136
 137   <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>
 138 </ol>
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 174   <li>Delivered changed to build (removing checking out of Clearcase elements during build)</li>
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 176   <li>Investigated how ranweb is set up and documented differences in the menus</li>
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 218   <li>Worked with Kirk on installing Clearcase on Linux servers.</li>
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