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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance). After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Installation of DevOps Test Performance
Installation of the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
Installation of the product by using the stand-alone installer
This guide intended for an administrator and describes how to install the product by using stand-alone installer on different operating systems.
Installation of the product software on macOS
You can find information about installing the product software on macOS by using the stand-alone installer.
Creating a properties file on macOS
To install the product in the silent mode, you must first create a properties file that contains the data required to install the product. Alternatively, you can generate the properties file by using the stand-alone installer.

Release Notes
This document includes information about the new features introduced, features deprecated or removed, defects fixed, and known issues identified in this version of HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance). You can also find the installation and upgrade instructions along with the contact information of HCL Customer Support.
System Requirements
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) 2023.12 (11.0.0).
Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the task flows to get you started with HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance). This guide is intended for new users.
Tutorials
This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance).
Samples
This section describes about the sample project which can be used with HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) to test the functionality of an application.
Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance). After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of DevOps Test Performance
  Installation of the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
  - Installation requirements
    Installation requires the correct hardware, software, server environment, operating systems, and user privileges for installing and running your software.
  - Installation conventions and terminology
    Understanding these terms and conventions can help you take full advantage of the installation information and your product.
  - Installation Manager overview
    Installation Manager is a program for installing, updating, and modifying packages. It helps you to manage the applications or packages that it installs on your computer. Installation Manager also helps you to keep track of what you have installed, determine what is available for you to install, and to organize installation directories.
  - Installation locations
    Installation Manager retrieves product packages from specified repositories and installs the products into selected locations, which are referred to as package groups.
  - Offering coexistence considerations
    Some products are designed to coexist and share functions when they are installed in the same package group. A package group is a location where you can install one or more software product packages.
  - Eclipse instance overview
    The product package that you install using Installation Manager comes with a version of Eclipse, which is the base platform of this product package. If you already have Eclipse installed on your workstation, you can add your product package directly to that Eclipse installation and extend the functions of the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE).
  - Increasing the number of file handles on Linux™ workstations
    For best product performance, increase the number of file handles above the default setting of 1024 handles.
  - Installation of the product by using IBM® Installation Manager
    You must download the product bits and then from the Installation Manager point to the Setup disk.
  - Uninstalling the product by using IBM® Installation Manager
    When you no longer require Test Performance, you can use IBM® Installation Manager to uninstall Test Performance that you have installed.
  - Installation of the product by using the stand-alone installer
    This guide intended for an administrator and describes how to install the product by using stand-alone installer on different operating systems.
    - Installation of the product on Windows systems
      You can find information about installing the product software on Windows system by using the stand-alone installer.
    - Installation of the product software on Linux
      You can find information about installing the product software on Linux by using the stand-alone installer.
    - Installation of the product software on macOS
      You can find information about installing the product software on macOS by using the stand-alone installer.
      - Installing the product in the GUI mode on macOS
        To get started with the desktop client on macOS, you can install the product in the GUI mode by using the stand-alone installer.
      - Creating a properties file on macOS
        To install the product in the silent mode, you must first create a properties file that contains the data required to install the product. Alternatively, you can generate the properties file by using the stand-alone installer.
      - Installing the product in the silent mode on macOS
        To get started with the product, you can install the product on macOS by using the silent mode installation method.
      - Changing the language of the product on macOS
        When you want to use the product in a different language other than the display language of your computer, then you can change the language of the product by using the command-line interface.
    - Installation of DevOps Test Performance Agent by using the stand-alone installer
      To get started with HCL DevOps Test Performance Agent (Test Performance Agent), you must install the product on Windows system or Linux or macOS by using the stand-alone installer.
  - Uninstallation of the product by using the stand-alone installer
    When you no longer require the product, you can use the stand-alone installer to uninstall the products that you have installed.
- License management
  Licensing for HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) is administered through HCL Software License & Download portal. This portal is a FlexNet-based web application that helps to manage software entitlements and licenses.
- Product upgrade and migration
  When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance), you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- Configuration of the product
  You must configure HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) when you want to run SAP tests, collect response time breakdown data, or use the product in the Docker container.
- Integration with other products
  You can integrate HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test scripts in HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) and enhances tests by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points. This guide is intended for testers.
Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you can perform on schedules, test execution with custom code, and Extending HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) to support other protocols. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. This guide is intended for test managers.
Troubleshooting Guide
This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance).
Reference Guide
This guide describes, additional topics to gain more knowledge about HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance).
All Guides (PDFs)
You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) as a PDF file.
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 the product documentation.

Creating a properties file on macOS

To install the product in the silent mode, you must first create a properties file that contains the data required to install the product. Alternatively, you can generate the properties file by using the stand-alone installer.

About this task

You can create the properties file by using one of the following methods:

Generating the properties file by using the stand-alone installer. See steps 1 through 4.
Copying the contents of the sample properties file to your local properties file. See 5.

Procedure

Download the product installer from the HCL® License & Delivery portal.

You must download the appropriate product variant, version, and architecture based on your requirements.

Note: When you want to install both Test UI and Test Performance on your computer, you can install the products by using a single shell-shared HCL DevOps Test UI and Test Performance package for the 64-bit platform that is available in the HCL® License & Delivery portal.
On the 32-bit platform, you must use separate packages of Test UI and Test Performance to install in the shell-shared mode by using Installation Manager.
Open the terminal and log in as an administrator.
Run the following command to change the directory to a location where you downloaded the installer file:
```
cd <directory path>
```
For example, cd /Users/username/Downloads
Run the following command to generate the properties file:
```
<installer_file.app> -r <location of the installer.properties file>
```
For example, DevOps-Test-Performance-MAC-x64-v11.0.0.0.app -r /Users/Applications/HCL/installer.properties

Create the properties file by copying the content of the following sample properties file:

#Host Name 
# Replay feature output
# ---------------------
# This file was built by the Replay feature of Installer.
# It contains variables that were set by Panels, Consoles or Custom Code.



#Destination Folder
#------------------
USER_INSTALL_DIR=/Applications/HCL

Results

You have generated or created the properties file.

What to do next

You can install the product by using the silent mode method.