Installation and upgrade roadmap for DOORS and DWA

To successfully install or upgrade IBM® Engineering Requirements Management DOORS® (DOORS), IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS - Web Access (DWA), or both, you must first prepare by gathering information and determining which steps to take.

All the installation information that you need, including information about system requirements, access to product downloads, and fixes in each release, is available in the Release notes for DOORS and DWA.

Typically, the administrator installs the DOORS client on a central machine, and then installs a DOORS database server. The administrator then uses the client to manage the DOORS system. Next, the administrator distributes the DOORS client installer to team members who install the DOORS client on their own computers.

If DOORS database server, or DWA is already installed on your system, the installer will upgrade the software to the new version.

If your team plans to use DWA, an administrator can install its components after DOORS and any optional components are installed. See Installation roadmap for DWA.

This image shows the installation work flow. The image includes hotspot links with an explanation of each link. Click this area to get information about preparing to install DOORS Click this area to get information about upgrading DOORS Click this area to get information about installing the DOORS client as an administrator Click this area to get information about installing the DOORS database server Click this area to get information about installing the DOORS client Click this area to get information about installing optional interfaces for DOORS Click this area to get information about preparing to install DWA Click this area to get information about installing DWA on Windows systems Click this area to get information about installing DWA on Linux systems Click this area to get information about configuring DWA Click this area to get information about running DWA

After the installation or upgrade is complete, you can access help content in one of three ways: remote web-based help, local help, and intranet help. The default way to access help is remote web-based help. You open the help from the client, but the help content is hosted on an IBM server.

Optionally, administrators can install the help content on a server in the company intranet. If the help is installed on an intranet server, team members must set the client help preferences to configure access to that server. Team members can also install the help locally on their client computers. For more information, see Using the help.

Administrators and users can also install optional DOORS interfaces, such as DOORS for HP Quality Center Interface.