ALM Client Registration

To work with other Micro Focus testing tools as well as third-party and custom tools, ALM must be registered on client machines. ALM Client Registration enables you to deploy and register the following ALM components on a client machine:

• ALM Client components
• ALM Site Administration Client components

For a list of the tools for which you must register ALM on a client machine, see the Application Lifecycle Management Installation Guide.

Instructions:

1. Log on to the client machine as a local user or a domain user with administrator privileges.
2. Make sure you have the file system and registry permissions listed below.
3. Make sure you close all instances of ALM/Quality Center and any integration tools.
4. Open the browser as an administrator (for example, right-click the Internet Explorer icon and select Run as Administrator).
5. Start ALM and re-access this Tools page for ALM Client Registration.
6. Click Register ALM below for ALM Client components.
7. Click Register ALM Site Administration below for ALM Site Administration Client components.
8. Close and re-open the browser.

Notes:

• After components are registered on the client machine by a user with administrator privileges, users without administrator privileges can start ALM client components.
   

Required Permissions:

You must have the following file system permissions:

• Full read and write permissions on the ALM-Client deployment folder. This is located at:
  • Windows 8, 7, 2008R2: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%
• Full read and write permissions to the Temp (%TEMP% or %TMP%) directory. The installer program writes installation and log files to this directory. This is generally located at:
  • Windows 8, 7, 2008R2: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp

You must have full read and write permissions on the following registry keys:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE