Server software upgrade by using upgrade (by new install) method

When you do not have any specific requirement to upgrade the server software, you can uninstall the existing version of the server software, and then install the latest version.

Before you upgrade the server software, you must ensure that you have completed the following tasks:

• Installed Helm. For more information, refer to the Installing a Helm chart on an OpenShift Container Platform cluster section in the Red Hat OpenShift documentation.

• Completed all test executions that are running on the existing version of HCL OneTest™ Server.

• Stopped all stub executions that are running on the existing version of HCL OneTest™ Server.

• Canceled any scheduled test runs that have a future date or time.

• Informed users that HCL OneTest™ Server is offline temporarily during the upgrade process.

In upgrade (by new install) method, depending on the existing version of the software, you can upgrade the server software by using any of the following options.

To upgrade HCL OneTest™ Server (10.1.0 or later) to latest version, you must perform these tasks in sequence as listed in the following table:

If your existing version of server software is 10.0.2, Fix Pack 1, or earlier, then you cannot directly upgrade to the latest version of the server software due to the steps involved in the migration process. Therefore, you must perform the tasks in sequence as listed in the following table: