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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ 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 HCL OneTest™ Performance
Installation of the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
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.
Installation of the product on Windows systems
You can find information about installing the product software on Windows system by using the stand-alone installer.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ 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 HCL OneTest™ 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
    Download the product bits and from the Installation Manager point to the Setup disk.
  - Uninstalling the product by using IBM® Installation Manager
    When you no longer require HCL OneTest™ Performance, you can use IBM® Installation Manager to uninstall HCL OneTest 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.
    - Installation of the product on Windows systems
      You can find information about installing the product software on Windows system by using the stand-alone installer.
      - Installing the product in the GUI mode on Windows systems
        To get started with the desktop client on Windows system, you can install the product in the GUI mode by using the stand-alone installer.
      - Creating a properties file on Windows systems
        To install the product in the silent mode, you must first create a properties file that contains the data required to install the product. Alternatively, you can generate the properties file by using the stand-alone installer.
      - Installing the product in the silent mode on Windows systems
        To get started with the desktop client, you can install the product on Windows system by using the silent mode installation method.
      - Changing the language of the product on Windows systems
        When you want to use the product in a different language other than the display language of your computer, then you can change the language of the product by using the command-line interface.
    - Installation of the product software on Linux
      You can find information about installing the product software on Linux by using the stand-alone installer.
    - Installation of the product software on macOS
      You can find information about installing the product software on macOS by using the stand-alone installer.
    - Installation of HCL OneTest™ Performance Agent by using the stand-alone installer
      To get started with HCL OneTest™ Performance Agent, you must install the product on Windows system or Linux or macOS by using the stand-alone installer.
  - 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 OneTest™ 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 OneTest™ Performance, 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.

Installation of the product on Windows systems

You can find information about installing the product software on Windows system by using the stand-alone installer.

You can install the product by using any of the following methods:

GUI mode
Silent mode