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The following table gives the approximate amounts of temporary space required during installation sizes are in bytes :.

Serena Builder users can download the installer from the Serena Builder 6. You must download and install the library files for the Version Manager integration to Serena Builder. You must do this before installing Serena Builder. This directory contains the installer for both Windows setup. Version Manager integrates with Serena TeamTrack 6. Version Manager integrates with Serena Tracker 6. Version Manager installs a private copy of Tomcat 6.

This installation of Tomcat is designed to work with Version Manager. Version Manager will not work with a generic Tomcat installation. If you have other Tomcat installations, you should ensure that they are not using the same ports , , , If a Version Manager client is configured to access a Version Manager file server that is unavailable, the client will hang.

To avoid this, be sure to remove any obsolete file server definitions from your servers. See the Version Manager Administrator's Guide for information on configuring clients for use with file servers. Before installing, disable any anti virus software. In particular, disable any anti virus software that scans files in real-time as you access them. Such real-time scanning software may hang the installer during the creation of the sample database.

If English Version Manager has been installed on a non-English system, installing a Version Manager patch may change the Version Manager interface to match the language of the operating system. This error message may appear during installation if you chose to install the sample database. It may also occur with other time zones. You can work around this issue by specifying an equivalent time zone different name, same time. Here are two methods of changing your time zone:. Try one of the GMT time zones with the same offset as that of your time zone.

This affects the entire system. For example:. If you use the Version Manager File Server, you must install the latest version of both the Version Manager client and the server. NOTE If circumstances prevent you from completing both the server and client upgrades before work must resume, complete the server upgrades before resuming work. You are less likely to encounter problems when running old clients against new servers than when running new clients against old servers.

Neither is recommended practice, but running old clients against new servers is less likely to present problems. If you plan to install Version Manager in the same location as a previous version, you must uninstall it before upgrading. The Sample Database may remain, but all other files should be removed. Failure to perform these uninstall tasks may cause conflicts when you upgrade.

Finally, go to the Servlets tab, select the first servlet from the list, click Modify and then click Apply. Repeat this for all remaining servlets. Users of Version Manager Server 6. If you are upgrading from a version prior to 8. If you are upgrading from 8. This will preserve the previous file server definitions. You can right-click on the Visual Studio shortcut and select Run as administrator from the resulting pop-up menu, or you can configure the shortcut to always run as administrator.

If you want to install to a server using a path name that contains any directory names longer than eight characters, you may first need to map a network drive to that location and use the drive mapping to install Version Manager.

If you do not use a drive mapping, an error message may appear stating that the path to the setup executable is invalid. To prevent errors when installing or working from a network installation of Version Manager, make sure network path names do not contain directory names longer than eight characters. Workstation installations of Version Manager may behave unpredictably if you are using Microsoft Novell Client drivers to access a Netware server.

We recommend using Novell Netware Client drivers. If you upgrade from Version Manager 8. If you install Version Manager 8. Removing this file also requires Administrator's privileges. Clicking OK terminates the installation process; ignoring the error box allows installation to complete successfully.

If your existing installation of the IDE client is older than 6. When you install to the root of a UNC share, the installer indicates that zero space is required. The installer shows the required space correctly if you select a directory on the share.

In either case, Version Manager will be correctly installed--provided you actually have enough disk space on the share. If you delete temporary files created during installation, you will not need this amount of space once Version Manager is installed. To set up licensing for end-user workstations on UNIX, a shell script named vmreg updates the license. The Version Manager installation script and launch scripts run vmreg automatically, but Administrators and users can run it as well. End users who use the command line, but not PCLI or the desktop client, need to run vmreg once before using the command line.

Users execute this command from the command line. The PCLI and desktop-client launchers execute this command automatically at startup. The Version Manager installation script and Administrators execute this command.

Failure to do so may result in unpredictable behavior, such as users seeing error messages after successful check-out operations. If you experience a problem after installing additional Eclipse framework applications, you will know it is an issue with the additional software rather than with Eclipse itself or the integration between Version Manager and Eclipse. However, Tracker 6. To avoid this issue, do not to use NTLM authentication when the integration clients are on a non-windows platform.

Using Single Sign On with versions of Eclipse prior to 3. The Serena Issues view will incorrectly display Japanese characters unless it is used with TeamTrack 6. Visual Studio may crash when you open a solution that is under source control and contains an XDE model.

This feature is installed disabled by default. However, it can still be enabled from inside the RIDE client. This issue was discovered late in our testing process when it was too late to fix without substantially impacting the release date. Rather than impact all customers, we decided to release with this feature disabled by default. We apologize for the inconvenience. During the RAD install, you can choose to update the install.

Please ensure that you install Rational Application Developer 7. If you are integrating with RAD 7 or generic Eclipse, you must click the Add button and enter the path when prompted for the path to the Eclipse installation. To use version 8. If Serena TrackerLink is installed to your system, it remains the active source control provider after you install the IDE client.

The Serena TrackerLink dialog box appears. Click the Activate button. The change will take effect the next time you start your IDE. The Select Serena Provider dialog box appears. Else a package load error may appear the next time Visual Studio is started. This in itself does no harm, but it prompts you as to whether you want to load this package in the future you DO! Choosing incorrectly at this point will disable the integration and require an uninstall and reinstall to fix the integration.

It will load properly the next time you open Visual Studio. Source control will not work. If the applet is not completely removed, there may be unusual behavior after you install a different version. Follow these steps to remove the applet:. Click the Remove NT Service button. It is not realistic to try to manually reconfigure your Version Manager web server for more than five servlets.

You can download a detailed Supported Platform List from this page. Optionally, you may use a supported third-party web server to access the servlets hosted on the Version Manager Web Server. This may be convenient if you have already configured a third-party web server and wish to use the existing front-end and HTTPS certificates with Version Manager.

Version Manager does not require a third-party web server. Large projects can exceed the memory allocated for Java in a variety of situations and with a variety of Version Manager interfaces. Memory requirements for the server depend on how many users access the server at the same time and how many daemon processes are running by default, 5 to 20 daemons are running.

Use the formula in the table below to calculate your memory needs. NOTE: The example is for the case of concurrent users and 20 daemon processes. It is included only to illustrate the use of the formula and is not intended as a recommendation. This is a mandatory step to use IIS 7.

To see if your web server includes DSO support, run the following command from Apache's bin directory:. If your installation of Apache does not include DSO support, you must obtain one that does, compile your own Apache server to include DSO support, or use the built-in Tomcat web server. If they are not installed, you will get an error similar to: mgdiff: error while loading shared libraries: libXm. Ensure that you have the libXm. This is typically accomplished by installing the package openmotif.

Version Manager bit requires the use of the bit version of ActiveClient. These typically get installed automatically when installing the bit version of ActivClient. If ActivClient is installed at the time Version Manager is installed, the paths to these libraries will automatically be added to card.

ActivClient 7 is supported as of version 7. This installation of Tomcat is designed to work with Version Manager. Version Manager will not work with a generic Tomcat installation. If you have other Tomcat installations, you should ensure that they are not using the same ports , , , , , and This section briefly describes the differences between the release types.

Each release type has a different number of digits in its release number:. In addition to newly developed features, enhancements, and fixes, it contains the enhancements and fixes of all the Patches and Hotfixes released since the previous full release. TIP You can backup and restore certain configuration settings to ease setup of a full release.

In addition to newly developed enhancements and fixes, it contains the fixes of all the Hotfixes released since the previous patch.

It contains a fix for a specific issue, or small group of closely related issues. If you want to install to a server using a path name that contains any directory names longer than eight characters, you may first need to map a network drive to that location and use the drive mapping to install Version Manager.

If you do not use a drive mapping, an error message may appear stating that the path to the setup executable is invalid. To prevent errors when installing or working from a network installation of Version Manager, make sure network path names do not contain directory names longer than eight characters. Workstation installations of Version Manager may behave unpredictably if you are using Microsoft Novell Client drivers to access a Netware server.

We recommend using Novell Netware Client drivers.