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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install the HCL OneTest™ Server software.
Configuration of the server software
You can find information about the tasks that you must perform after you installed the server software to configure HCL OneTest™ Server.
Server extensions and features
You can run specific tests in HCL OneTest™ Server by enabling the server extensions. You can also author or edit test assets if test authoring feature is enabled.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install the HCL OneTest™ Server software.
- Installation of the server software
  To get started working with HCL OneTest™ Server, you must first install the server software.
- Server software upgrade methods
  When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of HCL OneTest™ Server, you must upgrade the product to the latest version of the server software.
- Backup and restoration of the server data
  You must back up all your server data before you uninstall the current version of the server software or upgrade to the latest version of the server software. You must back up the server data to avoid data loss or inaccessibility of data.
- Uninstallation of the server software
  When you no longer require HCL OneTest™ Server, you can uninstall the server software. You can uninstall the server software depending on the platform on which you installed the server software.
- Configuration of the server software
  You can find information about the tasks that you must perform after you installed the server software to configure HCL OneTest™ Server.
  - User administration
    After you install HCL OneTest™ Server, you must consider how the software manages users and authentication.
  - Certificate authority: Importing and extending lists
    When you want browsers and other applications to access HCL OneTest™ Server, you must enable browsers to trust the certificate authority (CA) of HCL OneTest Server. For some applications that integrate with HCL OneTest Server, you must also extend the CA lists that are trusted by the applications.
  - Copying third-party application Jars to Kubernetes
    You can run API Suites in a project on HCL OneTest™ Server. If the API Suite uses a transport and the transport requires third-party application Jar files for a successful run, you must ensure that the third-party application Jar files are available at the test run time. To achieve this, you must copy the third-party application Jar files to the computer where HCL OneTest Server is installed on Kubernetes.
  - Changing the password seed
    As an administrator, you can change the password seed that is used when you install the server software to provide enhanced security to HCL OneTest™ Server.
  - Server extensions and features
    You can run specific tests in HCL OneTest™ Server by enabling the server extensions. You can also author or edit test assets if test authoring feature is enabled.
    - Disabling server extensions and features
      When you do not want the server extensions to run on the cluster to save server resources or when you no longer want to use the test authoring feature, you can disable them.
    - Enabling server extensions and features
      If you find that the server extension or test authoring feature is disabled and you want to run the tests supported by the server extension or you want to edit test assets, then you must enable them.
- Team space administration
  You can find information about team spaces including the initial team space on HCL OneTest™ Server along with the tasks that you can perform to administer a team space.

Server extensions and features

You can run specific tests in HCL OneTest™ Server by enabling the server extensions. You can also author or edit test assets if test authoring feature is enabled.

The server extensions are enabled at the time of installation of the server software. When the server extensions are enabled, you can perform the following tasks on HCL OneTest™ Server:

Add repositories that contain the test assets for the Postman collections, JMeter tests, or JUnit tests.
Configure a test run for the following test types:
- JMeter
- JUnit
- Postman

The test authoring feature provides you to author or edit test assets in HCL OneTest™ Server. Depending on the platform you used to install the server software, the default status of the feature can be enabled or disabled.

The default status of the test authoring feature is disabled when you install the server software on Ubuntu (by using k3s). However, the test authoring feature is enabled when you install the server software on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

After you install the server software, you can enable or disable the test authoring feature based on your requirements.

To learn more about enabling and disabling the server extensions and test authoring feature, refer to the following topics: