Welcome
Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in HCL OneTest™ Server. You can find information about configuring runs for the different test types that are supported. You can also find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
Resource monitoring
When you apply load to a system under test, the amount of resources consumed by your system is increasing. If the capacity of the resources does not match the load, you can see performance issues in the results. Resource monitoring in HCL OneTest™ Server helps you monitoring the resources of a system and establish the performance metrics and usage data of the system. Thus, you can observe the health of these resources while a schedule is running.
Resource monitoring capabilities
With HCL OneTest™ Server, you can monitor a host or a service that you add to a project as a source. You can select the statistics counters that are used to collect metrics and the resource usage data throughout the monitoring system. You can visualize metrics and data that are gathered during the monitoring process in HCL OneTest Server.
Monitoring an Apache httpd server
To monitor an Apache httpd server, you must add the Apache httpd server source to HCL OneTest™ Server, enter connection settings and select the counters that are used to capture the monitoring usage data.

Release Notes
This document includes information about What’s new, installation and upgrade instructions, known issues, and contact information of HCL Customer Support.
System Requirements
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL OneTest™ Server.
Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview of HCL OneTest™ Server. You can find the task flows to get you started with HCL OneTest Server. This guide is intended for new users.
Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install the HCL OneTest™ Server software.
Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test assets in HCL OneTest™ Server and publish test assets to the Git repository that you have configured. You can also edit existing test assets that are in the repository added to your project. This guide is intended for testers and test managers.
Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in HCL OneTest™ Server. You can find information about configuring runs for the different test types that are supported. You can also find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
- System modeling
  You can use the system model feature on HCL OneTest™ Server to create a model that simulates an application or system under test. You can define components to represent the actual components in the system under test, define their relationships and then view the components in a system under test as a diagrammatic representation.
- Prerequisites to running tests
  Before you can run a test asset in a project on HCL OneTest™ Server, you must read the information about the different tests assets. You can add a remote static agent, Docker host, or Kubernetes cluster to the project and then select it as an alternate location to run the test assets.
- Management of agents
  You can find information about managing performance agents or API agents that you install on remote computers and then configure the remote agents to register with HCL OneTest™ Server. After the agents are registered, you can add them to your projects and then select them as locations to run tests or virtual services.
- Management of Docker hosts
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on remote Docker hosts. After you set up a remote Docker host, you can register the Docker host with HCL OneTest™ Server. You must then add the registered remote Docker host to your project before you can run tests on the remote Docker host location.
- Management of remote Kubernetes clusters
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on remote Kubernetes clusters. After you set up a remote Kubernetes cluster, you can register the external cluster with a team space on HCL OneTest™ Server. You must then add the remote cluster to a project before you run test assets or resources on the remote Kubernetes cluster.
- Test run configurations
  You can configure and run tests in HCL OneTest™ Server after you add the test resources to your project in your team space.
- Configuration of test runs in a GitHub Actions Workflow
  You can configure test runs of test resources that are in a project repository of HCL OneTest™ Server in a GitHub Actions Workflow. You can choose to run test resources that are in your server project in the GitHub Workflow when you do not want to run the test resources without opening the HCL OneTest Server project.
- Configuration of a scan of an application code
  You can use HCL OneTest™ Server to scan your application code for security vulnerabilities similar to using the HCL AppScan CodeSweep plugin to scan code in Visual Studio.
- Management of running tests
  Find information about the tasks that you can perform on a test that you configured for a run either while it runs or after it completes the run.
- Management of virtualized services
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on and manage the virtualized services that run on HCL OneTest™ Server. You can start or stop the virtual services that are available to HCL OneTest Server. You can view the routing rules and usage statistics of virtualized services, agents, or intercepts that are connected to HCL OneTest Server.
- Test results
  After the tests, Suites, or schedules are run and completed, you can view the results and open the reports in HCL OneTest™ Server to analyze the verdict, the performance, and statistics. You can also re-execute tests and schedules from the Result page with the same commit id.
- Resource monitoring
  When you apply load to a system under test, the amount of resources consumed by your system is increasing. If the capacity of the resources does not match the load, you can see performance issues in the results. Resource monitoring in HCL OneTest™ Server helps you monitoring the resources of a system and establish the performance metrics and usage data of the system. Thus, you can observe the health of these resources while a schedule is running.
  - Resource monitoring capabilities
    With HCL OneTest™ Server, you can monitor a host or a service that you add to a project as a source. You can select the statistics counters that are used to collect metrics and the resource usage data throughout the monitoring system. You can visualize metrics and data that are gathered during the monitoring process in HCL OneTest Server.
    - Monitoring an NGINX server
      To monitor an NGINX server, you must add the NGINX server source to HCL OneTest™ Server, enter connection settings and select the counters that are used to capture the monitoring usage data.
    - Monitoring an Apache httpd server
      To monitor an Apache httpd server, you must add the Apache httpd server source to HCL OneTest™ Server, enter connection settings and select the counters that are used to capture the monitoring usage data.
    - Monitoring metrics collected by a Prometheus server
      You can monitor your system resources by using metrics data that are collected by a Prometheus server while executing a schedule.
    - Monitoring metrics exposed by an OpenMetrics exporter
      With HCL OneTest™ Server, you can monitor your system resources by using metrics data that are exposed by an OpenMetrics or a Prometheus exporter through metric counters while executing a schedule.
    - Monitoring a Java Virtual Machine
      To monitor a Java Virtual Machine, you must add the Java Virtual Machine source to the project in HCL OneTest™ Server and select the counters that are used to capture the monitoring metrics.
    - Monitoring a Docker host
      To monitor a Docker host, you must add the Docker host source to HCL OneTest™ Server, enter connection settings and select the counters that are used to capture the monitoring usage data.
    - Monitoring a Windows Performance host
      To monitor a Windows Performance host, you must add the Windows Performance host source to the project in HCL OneTest™ Server and select the counters that are used to capture the monitoring usage data.
    - Monitoring a Linux Performance host
      To monitor a Linux Performance host, you must add the Linux Performance host source to the project in HCL OneTest™ Server and select the counters that are used to capture the monitoring usage data.
  - Resource monitoring agents
    You can connect agents to HCL OneTest™ Server from other hosts to monitor a larger set of data collectors, computers, servers, or systems, or if a server to monitor requires authorization access. To monitor these remote servers, you must configure and run the agents so that a connection is set between HCL OneTest Server resource monitoring service and the agents.
  - Managing sources
    After you add and connect monitoring sources to your project, you might want to modify the sources in you project and the configuration of the sources.
  - Collecting and viewing resource monitoring usage data
    With HCL OneTest™ Server, you can collect resource monitoring data in a timeframe and view the resource monitoring usage data in a graph while the test is running. You can also create queries to retrieve the resource monitoring usage data.
- Configuration of a change management system
  When you use any application to create and track defects (bugs), issues, or other work items, you can configure the application as a change management system on HCL OneTest™ Server. You can then create defects (bugs), issues, or other work items without the need to open your application.
- Integrations with other applications
  You can integrate certain applications with HCL OneTest™ Server to run tests, view the test results, and create defects.
- Managing access to HCL OneTest™ Server
  Desktop clients and third-party integrations use offline user tokens to connect to HCL OneTest™ Server.
- Working with HCL OneTest™ Server REST services
  When you want to use the HCL OneTest™ Server REST APIs in your test automation scripts, you can view the REST APIs that are exposed by HCL OneTest Server. You can also run the APIs from within your project in HCL OneTest Server.
Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to manage and track your overall test effort. This guide is intended for test managers.
Reference Guide
This guide describes conceptual information about data design environment components when you want to use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server.
Troubleshooting
This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with HCL OneTest™ Server.
All Guides (PDF)
You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of HCL OneTest™ Server as a PDF file.
Security Considerations
This document describes the actions that you can take 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 the product documentation.

Monitoring an Apache httpd server

To monitor an Apache httpd server, you must add the Apache httpd server source to HCL OneTest™ Server, enter connection settings and select the counters that are used to capture the monitoring usage data.

Before you begin

You must be logged in HCL OneTest™ Server and be the owner of an existing new project.

You can optionally use agents. See Resource monitoring agents.

Procedure

Click Infrastructure > Resource Monitoring.
The resource monitoring page opens. See Resource monitoring agents.
In the resource monitoring page, click Add a Source and select Add an Apache httpd server....
Fill in the following connection settings in the New server dialog:

Note: For hosts that are already connected to HCL OneTest™ Server through an agent, you have only the Access target from field enabled. Move directly to step 4.
1. In Target host, enter the IP address or host name and port number of the host where the server to monitor is installed.
2. In Server edition, select the appropriate server from the drop-down list.
3. In Path to the status page of the server, enter the name of the page to view the status of the server.
4. In Security, select the following options:
  
  Secured with TLS/SSL
  
  If the application server is secured with TLS/SSL.
  
  Trust self-signed certificate
  
  To accept the server certificate.
  
  Do not verify host name
  
  To ignore verification of the host name in the certificate.
  
  Require credentials
  
  If the server requires log-in credentials, enter a User name and Password.
Click Add.
The Choose Data Counters dialog opens.
Select and save the statistics counters to monitor the source. You can select them from the list where they follow the server logical organization.
For a faster selection, select the counters from the built-in sets drop-down list where they are organized by theme and save your selection.

Results

When the selected counters are saved, two tables are displayed in the resource monitoring main page. They contain the total number of sources you have added and the number of sources ordered by type.

What to do next

You can click the links in the tables to view the performance metrics and resource monitoring usage data for the monitored server.