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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.
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.

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.
      - Configuring the Windows™ Performance Monitor probe
        The Windows™ Performance Monitor probe runs on a host computer that can be configured in the Architecture School Physical View.
    - 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.
    - 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.

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.

The performance objects and counters available in the probe are the same as those available in the Windows™ Performance Monitor (an example is shown below).

For a description of any of the counters available in the probe, you can click the Explain button (shown above) in the Windows™ Performance Monitor when adding counters.

Note: The Windows™ Performance Monitor probe requires the installation of the Microsoft™ Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable package on each computer that is to be monitored. The package is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions and can be downloaded from the Microsoft™ website. If you have installed the 32-bit version of Rational® Integration Tester Agent, you must install the 32-bit version of the Microsoft™ Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable package. Alternatively, if you have installed the 64-bit version of Rational® Integration Tester Agent, you must install the 64-bit version of the Microsoft™ Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable package.