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Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to manage and track your overall test effort. This guide is intended for test managers.
Managing notifications
IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server provides a feature to display notifications for different events within the user interface (UI) of Rational Test Automation Server. You can configure an SMTP server on Rational Test Automation Server when you want Rational Test Automation Server to send out notifications about the different events as emails to the subscribed users.

Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to manage and track your overall test effort. This guide is intended for test managers.
- Managing team spaces
  You might want to become a team space member, add members to your team space, change a user role in a team space, modify the team space, or delete a team space.
- Test assets and a server project
  Rational® Test Automation Server projects manage access to your test assets, which are stored in a Git repository. Projects are maintained in a team space. Projects are either public by default or private. Private projects are not discoverable by other users. You can either add your own project or you can request to be a member of another public project.
- Managing repositories
  After you create a project in Rational® Test Automation Server, you can add repositories that contain test assets and resources to the project. You can also change the repository details, update the user credentials of a repository, delete a repository, create a webhook for the configured repository.
- Protecting API test assets by using secrets
  Secrets are key-value pairs that are created for your project in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server under a secrets collection. You can create secrets collections for your project that enable you or members in your project to use secrets at test runtime either in Rational Test Automation Server or in desktop clients.
- Managing an encrypted dataset
  You can use encrypted datasets to limit access to confidential information such as account number or passwords. You can arrange data by an appropriate category so that project members can use datasets more effectively in certain tests and protect them.
- Managing notifications
  IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server provides a feature to display notifications for different events within the user interface (UI) of Rational Test Automation Server. You can configure an SMTP server on Rational Test Automation Server when you want Rational Test Automation Server to send out notifications about the different events as emails to the subscribed users.
  - Managing in-app notifications
    You can manage the in-app notifications by changing the subscriptions that are automatically enabled for you for all server events. You can view the server events that are automatically subscribed and then change the subscription for any or all events. For example, as a team space owner, you can choose to be notified when members of the team space create new projects or delete their projects but not be notified when tests are run.
  - Managing email notifications
    You can manage the email notifications by changing your subscription to the SMTP channel. For example, as a project owner, you can choose to be notified when members of the project add a repository or run a test in a team space but not be notified when projects are created in the team space.

Managing notifications

IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server provides a feature to display notifications for different events within the user interface (UI) of Rational® Test Automation Server. You can configure an SMTP server on Rational® Test Automation Server when you want Rational® Test Automation Server to send out notifications about the different events as emails to the subscribed users.

Rational® Test Automation Server provides you the following features to receive notifications about server events:


Channels	Description
In-app	Notifications are displayed within the UI of Rational® Test Automation Server.
SMTP	Notifications are sent in emails to subscribed users of Rational® Test Automation Server by an SMTP server.

Managing notifications in the server UI

Viewing the in-app notifications or notifications in the server UI is a feature that is enabled automatically when you register as a user in Rational® Test Automation Server.

When you register as a user in Rational® Test Automation Server, the in-app notifications are automatically subscribed for you.

If you want to receive notifications about specific events and not all events, you can change the default subscriptions and modify your subscription for the server events. You can also view the in-app notifications that are displayed for you. See Managing in-app notifications.

Managing SMTP notifications

You, as a Server Administrator or Team Space Owner can configure an existing Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server so that Rational® Test Automation Server can send out notifications about the server events in emails to the registered users who have subscribed to the SMTP notifications. See Configuring an SMTP server to manage email notifications.

If you, as a registered user of Rational® Test Automation Server want to receive the email notifications about specific events and not all events, you can change the subscriptions for the server events. See Managing email notifications.