Create a release area in Clearcase 7.1.2

How to create a release area for users to install the IBM Rational Clearcase v 7.1.2 Client with specific site definition, so that developers can connect to the Clearcase server(which is already installed and setup) from clients desktop.

Solution

As mention in "Creating a release area", when you install IBM Rational ClearCase, you first create a networkwide release area. Then install the product on servers and clients from release area you have created.

But that is for CC7.0 or 6.0 only: see "Comparing pre-7.1 install technologies to new technologies in 7.1 for achieving enterprise deployment on Windows systems":

The pre-7.1 release area is referred to as a repository in 7.1.
The repository might be a shared directory on a machine acting as a file server or a directory on a Web server. Repositories are read only.

So you need to create a repository: the all process is now managed by the Installation Manager.

In that repository, you can:

create a clearcase_response file, following the process in "Unix ClearCase 7.1 silent install by example" (similar for Windows),
or record your own ("Recording a response file"),
or using one of the pre-defined example response file at "Sample response files for IBM Rational ClearCase".

In that response file, you will be able to specify the registry server and the license server names, as well as the region for the Vobs.