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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ UI software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Installation
You can find information about the installation of HCL OneTest™ UI.
Installing the product using Installation Manager
In this section, you will learn the pre-installation, installation, and post-installation tasks to install the product by using Installation Manager.
Planning the installation
Read all the topics in this section before you begin to install or update any of the product features. Effective planning and an understanding of the key aspects of the installation process can help ensure a successful installation.
Installation considerations
Part of planning entails making decisions about installation locations, working with other applications, extending Eclipse, upgrading, migrating, and configuring help content.
Extending an existing Eclipse IDE
When you install the HCL OneTest™ UI product package, you can choose to extend an Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) already installed on your computer by adding the functions that the HCL OneTest UI package contains.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ UI software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation
  You can find information about the installation of HCL OneTest™ UI.
  - Installation requirements
    This section details hardware, software, and user privilege requirements that must be met in order to successfully install and run HCL OneTest™ UI.
  - Installing the product using Installation Manager
    In this section, you will learn the pre-installation, installation, and post-installation tasks to install the product by using Installation Manager.
    - Installation terminology
      Understanding these terms can help you take full advantage of the installation information and your HCL OneTest™ UI.
    - Planning the installation
      Read all the topics in this section before you begin to install or update any of the product features. Effective planning and an understanding of the key aspects of the installation process can help ensure a successful installation.
      - Installation roadmap
        The installation roadmap lists the high-level steps for installing your product.
      - Installation Manager overview
        Installation Manager is a program for installing, updating, and modifying packages. It helps you manage the applications, or packages, that it installs on your computer. Installation Manager does more than install packages: It helps you keep track of what you have installed, determine what is available for you to install, and organize installation directories.
      - Installation considerations
        Part of planning entails making decisions about installation locations, working with other applications, extending Eclipse, upgrading, migrating, and configuring help content.
        Installation features
        You can choose to install some of the features of HCL OneTest™ UI. Some features are selected for installation by default. If a feature already exists in your shared resources directory, you cannot install that feature again.
        Extending an existing Eclipse IDE
        When you install the HCL OneTest™ UI product package, you can choose to extend an Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) already installed on your computer by adding the functions that the HCL OneTest UI package contains.
        Extending an existing Eclipse IDE
        When you install the HCL OneTest™ UI product package, you can choose to extend an Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) already installed on your computer by adding the functions that the HCL OneTest UI package contains.
        Installation repositories
        Installation Manager retrieves product packages from specified repository locations.
    - Preinstallation tasks
      Before you install the product, you might need to prepare or configure your computer.
    - Installing software
      This section provides the instructions for installing Installation Manager and the product as well as installation verification.
    - Post-installation tasks
      After you have installed your product package, complete the post-installation tasks or configure your product package as required.
    - Installation in the shell sharing mode
      You can install HCL OneTest™ UI in the same package group with the other supported Eclipse-based products. These products share a common environment, or they are shell shared. Shell shared products have a common installation directory, <install_directory>\IBM\SDP. HCL OneTest UI installs as a perspective in the UI of the product with which it is shell-shared.
    - Modifying installations
      The Modify Packages wizard in the IBM® Installation Manager enables you to change the language and feature selections of an installed product package. You can also use the Modify Packages wizard to install new features that might be included in a package update, such as a refresh pack.
    - Uninstalling HCL OneTest™ UI
      The Uninstall Packages option in the Installation Manager enables you to uninstall packages from a single installation location. You can also uninstall all the installed packages from every installation location.
  - Installation 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.
  - Uninstallation 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.
  - About upgrading and migrating
    When you want to use the enhanced functionality of HCL OneTest™ UI, you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- License management
  Licensing for HCL OneTest™ UI is administered through HCL Software License & Download portal. This portal is a FlexNet-based web application that helps to manage software entitlements and licenses.
- Starting HCL OneTest™ UI from the command line
  You can start HCL OneTest™ UI from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.
- Software configuration management
  You can integrateHCL OneTest™ UI with the software configuration management systems to maintain an auditable and repeatable history of your organization's test assets.
- Integrations in UI Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
- Integrations in Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.

Extending an existing Eclipse IDE

When you install the HCL OneTest™ UI product package, you can choose to extend an Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) already installed on your computer by adding the functions that the HCL OneTest™ UI package contains.

The HCL OneTest™ UI package that you install using IBM® Installation Manager is bundled with a version of the Eclipse IDE or workbench; this bundled workbench is the base platform for providing the functionality in the Installation Manager package. However, if you have an existing Eclipse IDE on your workstation, then you have the option to extend it, that is, add to the IDE the additional functionality provided in the HCL OneTest™ UI package.

To extend an existing Eclipse IDE, in the Location page of the Install Packages wizard, select the Extend an existing Eclipse IDE option.

Important: To enable users who do not have Administrator privileges to work with HCL OneTest™ UI in the Windows® operating system, do not install Eclipse inside the Program Files directory (C:\Program Files\).

You might extend your existing Eclipse IDE, for example, because you want to gain the functionality provided in the HCL OneTest™ UI package, but you also want to have the preferences and settings in your current IDE when you work with the functionality from the HCL OneTest™ UI package. You also might want to work with plug-ins that you have installed that already extend the Eclipse IDE.

Your existing Eclipse IDE must be version 4.6.3 for the latest updates from eclipse.org to be extended. Installation Manager checks that the Eclipse instance you specify meets the requirements for the installation package.

Note: You might need to update your Eclipse version in order to install updates to HCL OneTest™ UI. Refer to the update release documentation for information on changes to the prerequisite Eclipse version.