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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration, user management, security, memory, and disk usage management, back up and restore user data. This guide is intended for administrators.
Configuration of the server software
You can find information about the tasks that you must perform after you installed the server software to configure Rational® Test Automation Server.
Certificate authority: Importing and extending lists
When you want browsers and other applications to access Rational® Test Automation Server, you must enable browsers to trust the certificate authority (CA) of Rational Test Automation Server. For some applications that integrate with Rational Test Automation Server, you must also extend the CA lists that are trusted by the applications.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration, user management, security, memory, and disk usage management, back up and restore user data. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of the server software
  To get started with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you must first install the server software.
- Server software upgrade methods
  When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of Rational® Test Automation Server, you must upgrade to the latest version of 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 Rational® Test Automation 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 Rational® Test Automation Server.
  - User administration
    After you install IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you must consider how the software manages users and authentication.
  - Certificate authority: Importing and extending lists
    When you want browsers and other applications to access Rational® Test Automation Server, you must enable browsers to trust the certificate authority (CA) of Rational Test Automation Server. For some applications that integrate with Rational Test Automation Server, you must also extend the CA lists that are trusted by the applications.
    - Importing Certificate Authority into the Google Chrome browser
      You must import certificate authority into the Google Chrome browser to prevent certificate errors when accessing the Rational® Test Automation Server UI.
    - Importing Certificate Authority into the Microsoft Edge browser
      You must import Certificate Authority (CA) into the Microsoft Edge browser to prevent certificate errors when accessing the Rational® Test Automation Server UI.
    - Importing Certificate Authority into the Mozilla Firefox browser
      You must import Certificate Authority (CA) into the Mozilla Firefox browser to prevent certificate errors when accessing the Rational® Test Automation Server UI.
  - 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.
  - Changing the password seed
    As an administrator, you can change the password seed that is used when you install the server software to provide enhanced security to Rational® Test Automation Server.
- License management
  You can manage and administer licensing for your installed server software through the Configure Licenses window in Rational® Test Automation Server.

Certificate authority: Importing and extending lists

When you want browsers and other applications to access Rational® Test Automation Server, you must enable browsers to trust the certificate authority (CA) of Rational® Test Automation Server. For some applications that integrate with Rational® Test Automation Server, you must also extend the CA lists that are trusted by the applications.

You can find the following tasks to import the certificate authority in the browser that you want to use: