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Administrator guide
This guide, which is intended for an administrator, describes how to install IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server software. After you install the software, you can administer the server. Administration tasks can include License configuration, User management, Security, Memory and disk usage management, Backup and restore user data.
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 IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you must consider how the software manages users and authentication.

Administrator guide
This guide, which is intended for an administrator, describes how to install IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server software. After you install the software, you can administer the server. Administration tasks can include License configuration, User management, Security, Memory and disk usage management, Backup and restore user data.
- Installation of Rational® Test Automation Server
  To get started with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you must first install the server software.
- Backing up and restoring the user data
  You might want to restore an earlier environment state if you install a new version of Rational® Test Automation Server, move environments to different systems (both real and virtual), or set up a test environment ready for testing. To address any of these needs, you can back up and restore Rational Test Automation Server user data installed either on Ubuntu or on Red Hat OpenShift platform.
- 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 IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you must consider how the software manages users and authentication.
    - Default user administration
      You installed IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server and you want to know about how the software manages user access.
    - LDAP user administration
      You installed IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server and you are using a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol and Active Directory HTTP server to manage users and authentication. You want to know the best practices to use that LDAP/AD server to manage user access to Rational Test Automation Server.
    - Managing account settings
      You might want to change your password or other settings for your account.
  - 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 Rational® Test Automation 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 Rational Test Automation Server is installed on Kubernetes.
- Licensing
  You can purchase named user licenses for Rational® Test Automation Server and install the licenses on the FlexNet Operations server.

User administration

After you install IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you must consider how the software manages users and authentication.

You can review the default user management provided by the server and decide what additional controls you might want to add. If you manage users and authentication through an existing LDAP/AD server, you can review how to use that server to manage Rational® Test Automation Server users.