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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance). After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Installation of DevOps Test Performance
Installation of the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance). After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of DevOps Test Performance
  Installation of the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
  - Installation requirements
    Installation requires the correct hardware, software, server environment, operating systems, and user privileges for installing and running your software.
  - Installation conventions and terminology
    Understanding these terms and conventions can help you take full advantage of the installation information and your product.
  - Installation Manager overview
    Installation Manager is a program for installing, updating, and modifying packages. It helps you to manage the applications or packages that it installs on your computer. Installation Manager also helps you to keep track of what you have installed, determine what is available for you to install, and to organize installation directories.
  - Installation locations
    Installation Manager retrieves product packages from specified repositories and installs the products into selected locations, which are referred to as package groups.
  - Offering coexistence considerations
    Some products are designed to coexist and share functions when they are installed in the same package group. A package group is a location where you can install one or more software product packages.
  - Eclipse instance overview
    The product package that you install using Installation Manager comes with a version of Eclipse, which is the base platform of this product package. If you already have Eclipse installed on your workstation, you can add your product package directly to that Eclipse installation and extend the functions of the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE).
  - Increasing the number of file handles on Linux™ workstations
    For best product performance, increase the number of file handles above the default setting of 1024 handles.
  - Installation of the product by using IBM® Installation Manager
    You must download the product bits and then from the Installation Manager point to the Setup disk.
  - Uninstalling the product by using IBM® Installation Manager
    When you no longer require Test Performance, you can use IBM® Installation Manager to uninstall Test Performance that you have installed.
  - Installation of the product by using the stand-alone installer
    This guide intended for an administrator and describes how to install the product by using stand-alone installer on different operating systems.
  - Uninstallation of the product by using the stand-alone installer
    When you no longer require the product, you can use the stand-alone installer to uninstall the products that you have installed.
- License management
  Licensing for HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) is administered through HCL Software License & Download portal. This portal is a FlexNet-based web application that helps to manage software entitlements and licenses.
- Product upgrade and migration
  When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance), you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- Configuration of the product
  You must configure HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) when you want to run SAP tests, collect response time breakdown data, or use the product in the Docker container.
- Integration with other products
  You can integrate HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.

Installation of DevOps Test Performance

Installation of the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.

This installation guide covers two independent products: HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) and the HCL DevOps Test Performance Agent (Test Performance Agent). The Test Performance Agent is a tool that you use with Test Performance. It is included as part of the Test Performance product kit.

Test Performance Agent consists of two capabilities:

Generate load for the application under test by using the virtual users. You can increase the load generation capacity by installing additional agents on remote computers.
Gather data for the Response Time Breakdown feature and in support of the startup and control of web services stubs in the SOA protocol.

Note: The Test Performance and Test Performance Agent are separate offerings and must be installed separately.