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Administrator Guide
Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
Administering HCL Quality Server
HCL Quality Server is a server-based web application providing a central repository for virtualized services. The HCL Quality Server allows you to use virtual services published with HCL OneTest™ API to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in HCL OneTest Virtualization.

Rational® Test Virtualization Server
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about What's new, installation, known issues, and contact information of IBM Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL OneTest™ Virtualization.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Test Virtualization Server.
- Administrator Guide
  Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
  - Installation of Rational® Integration Tester Agent
    You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Integration Tester Agent from the IBM Rational Test Workbench, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, or package.
  - Installation of Rational® Test Control Panel
    You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel from the IBM Rational Test Workbench, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, or IBM Rational Performance Test Server package.
  - Upgrading HCL OneTest™ API Agent
    In general, you can upgrade from earlier versions of HCL OneTest™ API Agent to the most recent version without having to uninstall the software. Use the IBM® Installation Manager Update option to upgrade the software.
  - License management
    As a purchaser of an IBM® Rational® software product, you can choose from the different types of product licenses that you can deploy to use the product.
  - Configuring HCL OneTest™ API Agent
    After you install HCL OneTest™ API Agent, you must edit or modify the attributes in the Agent.config file for the features that you want to test by using the agent. You need to configure the libraries to enable testing the SUT based on certain technologies and also set up the required proxies for enabling testing.
  - Running HCL OneTest™ API Agent on Microsoft™ Windows™
    On computers running Microsoft™ Windows™, the agent is typically installed and run as a Windows service.
  - Running HCL OneTest™ API Agent on Unix-like systems
    On Unix-like systems, you can start HCL OneTest™ API Agent by running the Agent executable in the root of the HCL OneTest API Agent installation directory (for example, /opt/IBM/RIT-Agent/).
  - HCL OneTest™ API Agent
    You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you install and run the HCL OneTest™ API Agent.
  - HTTP/TCP proxy setup
    The process of configuring applications to use the HTTP/TCP proxy varies according to the application.
  - Setting up the JDBC proxy
    After you install the JDBC proxy, you must deploy the proxy into the Java™ virtual machine (JVM) of the relevant applications, set up the proxy for use, and verify that it is deployed.
  - Administering HCL Quality Server
    HCL Quality Server is a server-based web application providing a central repository for virtualized services. The HCL Quality Server allows you to use virtual services published with HCL OneTest™ API to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in HCL OneTest Virtualization.
    - Configuring HCL Quality Server
      You might need to configure the HCL Quality Server after the application is installed.
    - Getting started
      Start using the HCL Quality Server.
    - Task flow: Working with the HCL Quality Server Environments dashboard
      You can use the HCL Quality Server Environments dashboard to perform various tasks such as starting, stopping stubs and scenarios, and modifying stub configurations after you have published stubs to HCL Quality Server. You can also lock the environment that contain the published stubs.
    - Task flow: Working with the HCL Quality Server Infrastructure dashboard
      You can use the HCL Quality Server Infrastructure dashboard to perform administrative tasks such as viewing agents and proxies registered with HCL Quality Server.
    - Task flow: Working with the HCL Quality Server Network dashboard
      You can use the HCL Quality Server Network dashboard to perform administrative tasks such as viewing recording or routing rules configured for agents and proxies.
    - Managing users
      HCL Quality Server has multiple choices associated with its security model. Depending on the security option selected during installation of the HCL Quality Server, different options are available based on the user accounts.
    - Managing domains
      How to create and manage domains in HCL Quality Server.
    - Working with HCL Quality Server dashboards
      You can filter, search, sort, and choose the number of items to be displayed in HCL Quality Server dashboards.
    - Deleting environments
      This topic explains how to delete environments.
    - Agent and Proxy administration
      Use HCL Quality Server to view and control any of the HCL OneTest™ API agents or proxies.
    - Viewing HCL Quality Server logs
      If you are an HCL Quality Server administrator, you can view the audit, activity, and diagnostic logs of HCL Quality Server.
    - Viewing reports in HCL OneTest™ Server
      All the project stakeholders can view test reports for multiple testing products from the Results page on HCL OneTest™ Server. You can access the Results page from a web browser. Therefore, there is no need to install the desktop client.
    - Configuring stubs to connect to HCL Quality Server and the HTTP proxy
      A stub running on its own may not be sufficient in some cases, because it might have dependencies on services such as HCL Quality Server or the HTTP proxy. If the stub is running on the public cloud and the services are running in the enterprise, you must configure the stub to connect to these services.
    - Troubleshooting: HCL Quality Server
      You can use workarounds to troubleshoot common problems that you might encounter when you use HCL Quality Server.
- Tester Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for tracking the quality of the application. This guide is intended for Test Managers.
- Security Considerations
  You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
- Notices
  This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for product documentation.

Administering HCL Quality Server

HCL Quality Server is a server-based web application providing a central repository for virtualized services. The HCL Quality Server allows you to use virtual services published with HCL OneTest™ API to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in HCL OneTest™ Virtualization.

Functional overview

HCL OneTest™ Virtualization stubs designed in HCL OneTest™ API are published to the HCL Quality Server, which holds them in a repository. HCL Quality Server users can control stubs by means of web pages; and HCL Quality Server also manages the HCL OneTest™ Virtualization environment so that, where possible, messages are routed automatically to the stubs. (For more information about stubs, refer to HCL OneTest Virtualization overview.)

HCL Quality Server also enables you to schedule the execution of test suites on a single schedule basis or a recurring schedule basis.

In HCL Quality Server V9.2.1 or later, the way in which stubs are managed and controlled is significantly different from earlier versions. For more information, see Server-based stubs.

Technical overview

The following diagram shows how HCL Quality Server might be deployed in a HCL OneTest™ Virtualization Environment.

HCL Quality Server deployment in HCL OneTest Virtualization Environment