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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install the IBM® Rational® Test Automation 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.
Server extensions
You can run specific tests in Rational® Test Automation Server by enabling the server extensions.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server software.
- Installation of the server software
  To get started working 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 Rational Test Automation Server to the latest version.
- Migration of user data
  You can find information about the migration limitations and methods when you want to migrate data such as projects, test resources, configuration details of integrated applications, and so on. You can migrate data that is generated in an earlier version of IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server after you upgrade to or install the latest version, and then use that data in the latest version.
- Backup and restoration of the server data
  You must back up all your server data before you uninstall the current version of the server software or upgrade to the latest version of the server software. You must back up the server data to avoid data loss or inaccessibility of data.
- 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.
  - 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.
  - Server extensions
    You can run specific tests in Rational® Test Automation Server by enabling the server extensions.
    - Disabling server extensions
      When you do not want the server extensions to run on the cluster to save server resources, you can disable server extensions.
    - Enabling server extensions
      If you find that the server extension is disabled and you want to run the tests supported by the server extension, then you must enable them.
- 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 extensions

You can run specific tests in Rational® Test Automation Server by enabling the server extensions.

The server extensions are enabled at the time of installation of the server software. When the server extensions are enabled, you can perform the following tasks on Rational® Test Automation Server:

Add repositories that contain the test assets for the HCL AppScan CodeSweep tests, JMeter tests, JUnit tests or Postman collections.
Configure a test run for the following test types:
- HCL AppScan CodeSweep
- JMeter
- JUnit
- Postman

To learn more about enabling and disabling the server extensions, refer to the following topics: