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Tester Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
Technical Tester Guide
Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
Deploying probes
A Rational® Integration Tester probe measures variables from a particular component in the system and reports back its findings for processing and storage.
TIBCO Rendezvous trace probe
The TIBCO Rendezvous Trace (RVTRACE) probe uses the TIBCO program rvtrace to monitor networks and capture Rendezvous daemon (RVD) subject statistics.
Using the rvtrace program
You can set the rvtrace program to listen for SNMP connections from the TIBCO Rendezvous Trace probe.
Running rvtrace

Tester Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
- Integration Tester Reference
  This guide provides the topics to help the Integration tester use the product by using the user interface, commands or scripts. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
- Technical Tester Guide
  Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
  - Creating and running performance tests
    This topic describes how to create, configure, and run performance tests.
  - View test results
    This topic describes how to work with IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server charts in the Results Gallery perspective.
  - Deploying probes
    A Rational® Integration Tester probe measures variables from a particular component in the system and reports back its findings for processing and storage.
    - System statistics probe
      The System Statistics (Systat) probe runs on Windows™ or Linux™ and captures key system statistics for the target host.
    - Windows™ performance monitor probe
      The Windows™ Performance Monitor probe captures the same statistics for the target host as those available through the Performance Monitor (perfmon.msc) on Windows systems.
    - TIBCO BusinessWorks probe
      The TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) probe accesses the TIBCO Hawk microagents within BusinessWorks to collects execution statistics from running BusinessWorks processes.
    - TIBCO Rendezvous probe
      The TIBCO Rendezvous (RV) probe captures Rendezvous daemon (RVD) status messages that contain messaging and error rates.
    - TIBCO Rendezvous distributed queues probe
      The TIBCO Rendezvous Distributed Queues (RVDQ) probe uses Rendezvous daemon (RVD) transports to collect RV Distributed Queue statistics.
    - TIBCO Rendezvous trace probe
      The TIBCO Rendezvous Trace (RVTRACE) probe uses the TIBCO program rvtrace to monitor networks and capture Rendezvous daemon (RVD) subject statistics.
      - Configuring the TIBCO Rendezvous Trace probe
        How to configure the TIBCO RVD probe.
      - Using the rvtrace program
        You can set the rvtrace program to listen for SNMP connections from the TIBCO Rendezvous Trace probe.
        Running rvtrace
    - TIBCO EMS probe
    - webMethods Broker probe
      The webMethods Broker probe collects statistics for webMethods brokers, event types, clients, and client groups.
    - webMethods Integration Server probe
      The webMethods Integration Server probe collects statistics for the server and for specific webMethods services.
    - Handling probe errors
- Integration Tester Guide (Service Virtualization)
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for using virtual services or stubs to simulate parts of an environment if the real services are not yet available or because they are difficult or expensive to use. This guide is intended for Integration Testers.

Running `rvtrace`

When you run rvtrace on Windows™, you must install WinPcap, which is included in the IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server installation program. For more information, see Rational Performance Test Server overview.

The WinPcap software installs DLL files that rvtrace requires to capture RVD messages. You also need to ensure that the network interface that is used is the correct one (specified with the -i command-line option). If you do not use the correct interface, rvtrace cannot collect any data. You can find network device names in the Windows™ registry or you can run WinDump, which is the Windows™ version of tcpdump, the command-line network analyzer for Unix-like systems. (WinDump can be downloaded from the WinPcap website.)

For example, if you run a command of the following format:


windump -D

The output might look similar to the following:


1.\Device\NPF_GenericDialupAdapter (Generic dialup adapter)
2.\Device\NPF_{AC533C74-32A4-44AD-8675-5A16D50D0170} (3Com EtherLink PCI)

You can use this information when you run the rvtrace command.

For example:


rvtrace -i \Device\NPF_{AC533C74-32A4-44AD-8675-5A16D50D0170} -u 60 -snmp -no-display

Unix-like systems

When you run rvtrace on Unix-like systems, no other software is required. However, rvtrace must be able to open the network port in promiscuous mode, which requires super user permissions.

Typically, the rvtrace program has "set user to root" enabled. If this is true, it can be run as a normal user. (Contact your system administrator if you need assistance or to verify this.)

You must configure rvtrace to monitor the correct network port. A list of network interfaces can be displayed by running ifconfig.

For example:


host% /sbin/ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
hme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2 inet 192.168.111.8 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.111.255

In this case, the hme0 interface is used when you run the rvtrace command:


rvtrace -i hme0 -u 60 -snmp -no-display