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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ Performance. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
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.
Applying the license
To start using a product, you must first apply a license.
Using a local license server
In some cases, your computer might not be connected to the open Internet. In these cases, you can set up a local license server behind your company firewall. You must install the server on a physical computer and not on a Virtual Machine.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ Performance. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of HCL OneTest™ Performance
  Installing the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
- 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.
  - License descriptions
    The usage of base product and test extensions are enabled by floating licenses, whereas schedule runs can be enabled by either floating or consumption-based licenses. With floating licenses, multiple users can use the product; however, the total number of concurrent users cannot exceed the number of floating licenses you purchase.
  - Applying the license
    To start using a product, you must first apply a license.
    - Using a local license server
      In some cases, your computer might not be connected to the open Internet. In these cases, you can set up a local license server behind your company firewall. You must install the server on a physical computer and not on a Virtual Machine.
    - Configuring product licensing to use a proxy server
      In most cases, you connect directly to a cloud-based license server when you start the testing product for the first time. As an alternative, you can configure the testing product to use a proxy server.
  - Collecting usage metrics data
    To provide an insight into the usage patterns of the product itself and not necessarily the application that it is testing, the usage metrics are collected. The product can collect the metrics about the usage of the tool including and not limited to the number of tests executed, the number of actions performed against an application under test, the number of successful versus failed actions, verification points, and so on.
- Product upgrade and migration
  When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of HCL OneTest™ Performance Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality, you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- Configuration of the product
  You must configure HCL OneTest™ 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 OneTest™ Performance with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.

Using a local license server

In some cases, your computer might not be connected to the open Internet. In these cases, you can set up a local license server behind your company firewall. You must install the server on a physical computer and not on a Virtual Machine.

Before you begin

As part of configuration, the local license server must already have mapped your entitlements and be able to serve your requests.

About this task

The local license server is supported on 64-bit Windows™ and Linux® platforms. For more information about installing and configuring the local license server, see the documentation for the local license server on the HCL® License & Delivery portal product download site.

The local license server will be available soon after the 9.2.0.1 release.

Procedure

After the license server is installed and configured, start the testing product.
Within the test product, click Windows > Preferences > Test > Licensing.
When the licensing dialog opens, select the Server Type as Local and replace the URL of the cloud-based license server with the URL of your own local license server. Enter the Server URL of the local license server in this format - http://myserver:portNumber/request. Do not specify the server ID.
To test the connection to the server, click Test Connection.

What to do next

You can now work with the product.