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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ API. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
Administering HCL® Quality ServerHCL® 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.
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.
Modifying users
The following table shows how user maintenance in HCL® Quality Server is affected by the security model option being used and by user privileges.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ API. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of HCL OneTest™ API
  You can find information about installing HCL OneTest™ API from the HCL OneTest Studio or HCL OneTest API package.
- Installation of HCL® Quality Server
  You can find information about installing HCL® Quality Server from the HCL OneTest™ Studio, HCL OneTest Virtualization, or HCL OneTest API package.
- Uninstalling the product software
  When you no longer require the software, you can use either Installation Manager or the stand-alone installer to uninstall the products that you have installed.
- License management
  Licensing for your HCL software is administered through HCL® License & Delivery portal. This portal is FlexNet-based web application to manage software entitlements and licenses.
- Configuration of HCL OneTest™ API
- Administering HCL® Quality ServerHCL® 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.
    - Creating users
      HCL® Quality Server system administrators can create other users.
    - Modifying users
      The following table shows how user maintenance in HCL® Quality Server is affected by the security model option being used and by user privileges.
      - Changing your login password and default domain
        If the built-in security model of HCL® Quality Server is being used, you can change your HCL Quality Server login password at any time irrespective of your HCL Quality Server user privileges.
      - Changing other users login passwords
        This topic explains how to change other users login passwords.
      - Assigning/removing administrative privileges
        This topic explains how to assign/remove administrative privileges.
    - Deleting users
      This topic explains how to delete users in HCL® Quality Server.
  - 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.
- Integrations
  HCL OneTest™ API supports integration with various other tools for quality management, change management, software configuration management, and deployment automation tools such as UrbanCode™ Deploy or HCL® Launch.

Modifying users

The following table shows how user maintenance in HCL® Quality Server is affected by the security model option being used and by user privileges.


If this HCL® Quality Server security model option is being used...	And a HCL® Quality Server user is...	Then...
None	A "normal" user	There is no concept of an administrator user and all HCL® Quality Server users have the same privileges, so there are no user details to be maintained.
HCL® Quality Server Built-in	A "normal" user	The user can modify his or her server login password (for information about this, refer to Changing your login password and default domain).
	An administrator	The user can change the passwords of other users and assign (and remove) administrative privileges to (from) other users (for information about this, refer to Changing other users login passwords and Assigning/removing administrative privileges).
Active Directory/Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)	A "normal" user	The user can use Active Directory/LDAP tools (whichever are applicable) to change his or her server login password.
	An administrator	The user can use Active Directory/LDAP tools (whichever are applicable) to change his or her server login password. A server users privileges are determined by the membership of the Active Directory/LDAP groups selected during a fresh installation of HCL® Quality Server or when you modify an existing installation.

The following topics describe how to maintain login passwords and privileges server users.