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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ API. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
Installation of HCL® Quality Server
You can find information about installing HCL® Quality Server from the HCL OneTest™ Studio, HCL OneTest Virtualization, or HCL OneTest API package.
Hardware and software requirements
Before you begin the installation, verify that your hardware and software meet the minimum requirements.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ API. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of HCL OneTest™ API
  You can find information about installing HCL OneTest™ API from the HCL OneTest Studio or HCL OneTest API package.
- Installation of HCL® Quality Server
  You can find information about installing HCL® Quality Server from the HCL OneTest™ Studio, HCL OneTest Virtualization, or HCL OneTest API package.
  - Installation considerations for HCL® Quality Server
    You can install HCL® Quality Server as part of HCL OneTest™ Virtualization.
  - Hardware and software requirements
    Before you begin the installation, verify that your hardware and software meet the minimum requirements.
  - Installing HCL® Quality Server by using IBM® Installation Manager
    You can use IBM® Installation Manager to install HCL® Quality Server from the HCL OneTest™ Studio, HCL OneTest Virtualization, or HCL OneTest API package.
  - Installing the product software by using the stand-alone installer
    You can find information about installing the product software on Linux or Windows by using the stand-alone installer.
- Uninstalling the product software
  When you no longer require the software, you can use either Installation Manager or the stand-alone installer to uninstall the products that you have installed.
- License management
  Licensing for your HCL software is administered through HCL® License & Delivery portal. This portal is FlexNet-based web application to manage software entitlements and licenses.
- Configuration of HCL OneTest™ API
- Administering HCL® Quality ServerHCL® Quality Server
  is a server-based web application providing a central repository for virtualized services. The HCL® Quality Server allows you to use virtual services published with HCL OneTest™ API to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in HCL OneTest Virtualization.
- Integrations
  HCL OneTest™ API supports integration with various other tools for quality management, change management, software configuration management, and deployment automation tools such as UrbanCode™ Deploy or HCL® Launch.

Hardware and software requirements

Before you begin the installation, verify that your hardware and software meet the minimum requirements.

For a complete list of system requirements, see System Requirements.

Prerequisites for using the stand-alone installer

If you want to use the stand-alone installer for installing the product software, you must satisfy the following prerequisite conditions:

You must provide for the following disk space on the computer on which you want to install the product software:


Product	Disk space
HCL OneTest™ API	3 GB
HCL® Quality Server	5 GB
HCL OneTest™ API Agent	3 GB

Note: The disk space is used during the installation process to write the product files to the computer hard disk.