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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.
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.
Server software upgrade on Red Hat OpenShift
When you want to use the latest version of the server software on Red Hat OpenShift, you must upgrade Rational® Test Automation Server from the previous version of the software.

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.
  - Server software upgrade on Red Hat OpenShift
    When you want to use the latest version of the server software on Red Hat OpenShift, you must upgrade Rational® Test Automation Server from the previous version of the software.
  - Server software upgrade on Ubuntu
    When you want to use the latest version of the server software on Ubuntu, you must upgrade Rational® Test Automation Server from the previous version of the 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.
- Team space administration
  You can find information about team spaces including the initial team space on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server along with the tasks that you can perform to administer a team space.

Server software upgrade on Red Hat OpenShift

When you want to use the latest version of the server software on Red Hat OpenShift, you must upgrade Rational® Test Automation Server from the previous version of the software.

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

Installed Helm V3.5.2. For more information, refer to the Installing a Helm chart on an OpenShift Container Platform cluster section in the Red Hat OpenShift documentation.
Informed users that Rational® Test Automation Server is offline temporarily during the upgrade process.
Completed all test executions that are running on the existing Rational® Test Automation Server V10.1.0 or later.
Stopped all stub executions that are running on the existing Rational® Test Automation Server V10.1.0 or later.
Canceled any scheduled test runs that have a future date or time.

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 Rational® Test Automation Server V10.1.0 or later to latest version, you must perform these tasks in sequence as listed in the following table:

	Task description	More information
1	Uninstall Rational® Test Automation Server V10.1.0 or later.	Uninstalling the server software from Red Hat OpenShift
2	Install the latest version of the server software.	Installing the server software on Red Hat OpenShift

To upgrade Rational® Test Automation Server V10.0.2, Fix Pack 1 or earlier to latest version, you must perform these tasks in sequence as listed in the following table:

Tasks	Task description	More information
1	Upgrade Rational® Test Automation Server V10.1.2.	Installation of the server software on Red Hat OpenShift
2	Uninstall Rational® Test Automation Server V10.1.2.	Uninstalling the server software
3	Install the latest version of the server software.	Installing the server software on Red Hat OpenShift

Important:

After you migrate the server data from a previous version to a newer version, the Project Owner must log in to Rational® Test Automation Server so that other members of the project can access the test assets in that project.