# LoadRunner Enterprise Administration basics

Use LoadRunner Enterprise Administration to perform all site, project, and lab administration tasks.

After the LoadRunner Enterprise administrator has configured the site, created projects and users, and set up test resources and assets, users can use LoadRunner Enterprise to schedule and execute tests on remote hosts without requiring further administrator intervention.

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## Administrator user types

The following table lists the administrator user groups in LoadRunner Enterprise, and the modules that they can access in LoadRunner Enterprise Administration:

User Group | Module Access
--- | ---
Site Admin | Full access to all modules in LoadRunner Enterprise Administration. Note: The first site administrator user created in LoadRunner Enterprise during installation cannot be deleted or modified by any other site administrator user, including by him/herself.
Tenant Admin | Restricted access in LoadRunner Enterprise Administration. The System Health, Licenses, Servers, and File Repository tab in the Site Configuration module are not available. Hosts module: Read-only permissions, except for permissions to reconfigure hosts (Hosts tab), add pools and locations (Pools and Locations tabs), and assign hosts to pools (Pools tab). The Tenant Admin user can only configure his/her authentication. Note: A user that logs on as a Tenant Admin user cannot see Site Admin users.
Admin Viewer | View only permissions in LoadRunner Enterprise Administration. While the Admin Viewer is able to perform actions that do not affect the database (such as filter/sort grids and generate reports), all other functionality (such as add, delete, and update) is not available. Note: A user that logs on as an Admin Viewer user cannot see Site Admin or Tenant Admin users.

Note for accessing Site Management:

Only site management users and the user that you specified during the LoadRunner Enterprise installation can access the Site Management console. For details, see Multi-tenancy.

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## Key tasks

This section lists the key administration tasks that can be performed in LoadRunner Enterprise Administration.

System administration
Security Passphrase | Update the Communication Security passphrase on the LoadRunner Enterprise server and hosts. For details, see Update the Communication Security passphrase.
System User | Change the system user on the LoadRunner Enterprise server and hosts. For details, see Change the details of the LoadRunner Enterprise user.
Project and user management
Roles and Permissions | Protect a project from unauthorized access by assigning each user to one or more roles made up of permissions. For details, see Assign roles and permissions to users.
Users | Add new users and define user properties, including changing passwords. For details, see Project and user management.
Projects | Manage your LoadRunner Enterprise projects. This includes adding new domains and projects, modifying project settings, restoring projects, and activating or deactivating projects. You can also upgrade projects from a previous version to the current LoadRunner Enterprise version. For details, see Manage projects.
Audit | View a list of changes made to the various test entities and track user login and logout times on the site. For details, see Audit entities and user connections.
Host resources and lab management
Hosts | Host. Create and modify the testing hosts LoadRunner Enterprise uses to run server-side tests. For details, see Manage hosts. Pools. Create and modify pools of testing hosts. Host pools are assigned to LoadRunner Enterprise projects. For details, see Manage host pools. Locations. Define the locations which can be assigned to testing hosts. For details, see Manage host locations. MI Listeners. Create and modify MI Listeners, which enable you to run performance tests across a firewall. For details, see Specify MI Listeners.
Runs | Manage test runs and view result information for LoadRunner Enterprise tests run across all projects. For details, see Manage test runs.
Timeslots | Schedule and reserve hosts for manual maintenance work. For details, see Manage timeslots.
Application Under Test | Create and modify the pools and machines which host the Application Under Test (AUT) components. For details, see Manage Application Under Test hosts.
System Health | Track and maintain the health of the system, and schedule automated maintenance tasks to provide constant monitoring of the system's key components. For details, see Maintain system health and Schedule automated maintenance tasks.
Remote Installations | Enables you to upload LoadRunner Enterprise host and NV installation packages to the system, and then install them remotely on the appropriate LoadRunner Enterprise host machines.. For details, see Manage remote installations.
Configuration
Analysis servers | Manage analysis database servers which enhance online graph views and capabilities, and provide data for offline graphs. For details, see Manage analysis servers.
Orchestration | Configure the orchestrators and load generator images which are used for dynamic provisioning of dockerized load generators. For details, see Configure elastic dockerized hosts.
Cloud | Add your external cloud accounts or use a LoadRunner Enterprise CloudBurst account to create and modify the templates used to provision dynamic cloud hosts. For details, see Manage elastic cloud hosts.
Licenses | Maintain the LoadRunner Enterprise and host licenses. For details, see Manage licenses.
Servers | Create and manage the various servers in your performance testing environment. For details, see LoadRunner Enterprise servers, and Database server, SMTP server.
Alerts | Create alerts to notify users of test start and end times, and when timeslots are idle. For details, see Activate alerts.
Site Configuration | Configure the authentication method for LoadRunner Enterprise users and define the project file repository. For details, see Site configuration.
Dashboard and reports
Dashboard | Get a top level summary view of LoadRunner Enterprise. For details, see Administration dashboard.
Usage Reports | Analyze LoadRunner Enterprise site users and resource usage. For details, see Reports

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## Initial configuration

Immediately after installing the LoadRunner Enterprise server and hosts, the relevant component's configuration tool opens, prompting you for initial configuration settings. If any parts of the configuration were skipped, you must configure the settings manually before you can start working with LoadRunner Enterprise.

You can perform the configuration by running the configuration tool on the relevant machine, or alternatively by defining the settings manually in LoadRunner Enterprise Administration.

1. Prerequisites

   The Database server, LoadRunner Enterprise server, and LoadRunner Enterprise hosts must be installed according to instructions provided in the LoadRunner Enterprise Installation Guide.

1. Create a LoadRunner Enterprise project

   1. Log onto LoadRunner Enterprise Administration as described in Log onto LoadRunner Enterprise Administration.

   2. On the LoadRunner Enterprise sidebar, select Management > Projects.

   3. Create your project and configure the limits and other settings for the project. For details, see Create projects and domains and Manage projects.

1. Add the LoadRunner Enterprise license and the host license

   1. On the LoadRunner Enterprise Administration sidebar, select Configuration > Licenses.

   2. Click Add License and add the LoadRunner Enterprise license, and then the host license. For interface details, see View the Licenses page.

1. Add LoadRunner Enterprise hosts to the system

   On the LoadRunner Enterprise Administration sidebar, select Maintenance > Hosts, and click Create New Host . For details, see Add a host.

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## Log onto LoadRunner Enterprise Administration

This task describes how to launch LoadRunner Enterprise Administration on your machine from your Web browser.

1. Open your Web browser (Chrome, Internet Explorer, Edge, Firefox and Safari are supported) and type the LoadRunner Enterprise Administration URL in the following format:

       http://<LoadRunner_Enterprise_Server_name>/admin

   The LoadRunner Enterprise Administration Login window opens.

2. In the User Name box, type your user name. Only a Site or Tenant Admin user can log on to LoadRunner Enterprise Administration. For details, see Administrator user types.

   Note: The first time you log in to LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, you must use the site administrator name that you specified during the installation of LoadRunner Enterprise. After you log in to LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, you can define additional site administrators. For details, see Define a LoadRunner Enterprise site administrator.

3. In the Password box, type the site administrator password.

   Note: If you are logging in using your internal LoadRunner Enterprise password, you can reset the password by clicking Forgot or want to change your password (this is not applicable when using LDAP or SSO authentication).

4. Select the language for displaying the LoadRunner Enterprise user interface.

   The multilingual user interface, or MLU, provides support for multiple languages on a single instance of LoadRunner Enterprise without having to install language packs. Supported languages are English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Korean.

5. Click the Login button. LoadRunner Enterprise Administration opens.

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## Display customized welcome screen on login

If you want to have a customized message appearing when end users log onto a LoadRunner Enterprise project for the first time, perform the following:

1. Design the screen message

   On the LoadRunner Enterprise server, open the welcome.html file located in <LoadRunner Enterprise Server path>\PCWEB\Welcome\, and design it to display the custom html message (the html should be text only, with no objects such as images or attachment files).

2. Enable the screen on login

   Open the web.config file located in <LoadRunner Enterprise Server path\PCWEB\, and set the `WelcomePageFeatureEnabled` parameter to true (it is set to False by default).

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## Set the color theme

You can set the color theme for the LoadRunner Enterprise Administration user interface. The default is a light theme which features a white background with black text. There is also a dark theme with bright elements and easy-to-see colors.

Note: The dark theme feature is currently available as tech preview.

To switch between themes:

1. In the LoadRunner Enterprise Administration navigation toolbar, click and select Accessibility.

2. In the Theme section, select Standard or Dark mode.

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## Download Help Center

You can access the Help Center on the Web, or use a locally installed version of the Help Center (we recommend you use the online help for the most up-to-date content).

For details on how to download and install the local version of the help, see Download Help Center.

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See also:

- LoadRunner Enterprise Administration user interface

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