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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Integration Tester. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
Configuration of Rational® Integration Tester
HTTP/TCP proxy setup
The process of configuring applications to use the HTTP/TCP proxy varies according to the application.
Programmatic custom certificate creation in proxy
When an HTTPS connection is established with an HTTP/TCP proxy, the certificate presented to the client by the proxy is by default generated by the proxy and signed by the private key in the keystore configured in the registration.xml. Ordinarily, this mechanism is sufficient. If full control over the generation of certificates is required, an alternative advanced approach is available. The approach requires that custom code is written to generate and sign the required certificates.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Integration Tester. 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 Rational® Integration Tester
  You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Integration Tester from the IBM Rational Test Workbench or IBM Rational Integration Tester package.
- Installation of Rational® Test Control Panel
  You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel from the IBM Rational Test Workbench, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, or IBM Rational Performance Test Server package.
- Configuration of Rational® Integration Tester
  - Installed directories
    When you install Rational® Integration Tester, the following directories are created and populated under the installation directory.
  - User file storage
    Rational® Integration Tester projects store user files, and can be created in any location to which a user has access. However, using a remote or network location can reduce Rational Integration Tester performance significantly, so it is recommended that Rational Integration Tester is installed on a local drive.
  - Changing the display language
    When you want to use the product in a different language other than the display language of your computer, then you can change the language of the product by using the command-line interface. You can find the information to change the language in Linux or Windows.
  - Configuring the project results database
    Historical test data and performance results from agents and probes are stored in the Rational® Integration Tester project results database. It is difficult to estimate the space that is required as the number and type of tests to be run varies. For example, lengthy performance tests can generate large amounts of data. When you create the project results database, 50GB is probably a good starting point.
  - HTTP/TCP proxy setup
    The process of configuring applications to use the HTTP/TCP proxy varies according to the application.
    - Modifying the configuration settings of the HTTP/TCP proxy
      To change the server address, log level, and other settings, you can modify the registration.xml file of the HTTP/TCP proxy.
    - Configuring a HTTP(S) reverse proxy or TCP port forwarding
      The reverse proxy capability allows applications that are unable to configure HTTP(S) forward proxying to address the proxy directly and have it forward these requests to a configured destination, which is also applicable for forwarding TCP-based communications.
    - Advanced HTTP and TCP proxy configuration
      The HTTP protocol runs on top of the TCP protocol, but provides extra information about the message destination. For that reason, the two proxies are configured differently.
    - Configuring Apache Tomcat to use HTTP/TCP proxy
      You must modify the Java™ virtual machine (JVM) so that Apache Tomcat can use an HTTP/TCP proxy. You can configure Apache Tomcat by configuring JVM options in the Tomcat startup script.
    - Configuring WebSphere® Application Server to use HTTP/TCP proxy
      You must modify the Java™ virtual machine (JVM) so that WebSphere® Application Server can use an HTTP/TCP proxy. You can do this change by setting some JVM options through the administrative console.
    - HTTP/TCP proxy logs
      To help you troubleshoot HTTP/TCP proxy problems, a number of logging methods are available for the HTTP/TCP proxy.
    - Starting and stopping the HTTP/TCP proxy
      To route and record HTTP(S) and TCP traffic with Rational® Test Control Panel and Rational Integration Tester, you must start the HTTP/TCP proxy. If the proxy is installed as a Windows service, you can configure it for an automatic start on start of the system or for a manual start on demand.
    - Programmatic custom certificate creation in proxy
      When an HTTPS connection is established with an HTTP/TCP proxy, the certificate presented to the client by the proxy is by default generated by the proxy and signed by the private key in the keystore configured in the registration.xml. Ordinarily, this mechanism is sufficient. If full control over the generation of certificates is required, an alternative advanced approach is available. The approach requires that custom code is written to generate and sign the required certificates.
      - Interface CertificateCreator
        The Interface CertificateCreator is used as an interface to be implemented by external certificate generation classes when you have custom certificates to be generated and signed by the client. Such classes will be accessed by the Java™ service loader mechanism.
  - Setting up the JDBC proxy
    After you install the JDBC proxy, you must deploy the proxy into the Java™ virtual machine (JVM) of the relevant applications, set up the proxy for use, and verify that it is deployed.
  - Rational® Integration Tester tool packages
    To enable IBM® Rational® Integration Tester to work with certain technologies, you must configure the required libraries by using the Library Manager and also install and configure Rational Integration Tester tool packages that are provided with Rational Test Control Panel.
  - Working with Library Manager
    Rational® Integration Tester uses a plug-in architecture to provide support for various middleware and messaging technologies, so the list of third-party products with which it interacts can become large. You can manage this list by using Library Manager. When support for a new architecture or messaging plug-in is required, you use Library Manager to add that support.
  - Debugging failed Windows™ services
    If one of the programs fails to start as a Windows™ service, it can be difficult to determine the cause. Typically the service fails to start but gives no indication of why. The Windows Event log has nothing useful and the process might not have created its log file.
  - Rational® Integration Tester and Rational® Test Automation Server
    You can publish test reports for tests run on Rational® Integration Tester to Rational Test Automation Server. You can create secrets collections for your project and store them securely on Rational Test Automation Server that you can retrieve the secrets from Rational Test Automation Server during tests at runtime.
- Administering IBM® Rational® Test Control PanelRational® Test Control Panel
  is a server-based web application providing a central repository for virtualized services. The Rational® Test Control Panel allows you to use virtual services published with Rational Integration Tester to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in IBM® Rational Test Virtualization Server.
- Integrations
  Rational® Integration Tester supports integration with various other tools for quality management, change management, software configuration management, and deployment automation tools such as UrbanCode™ Deploy.

Programmatic custom certificate creation in proxy

When an HTTPS connection is established with an HTTP/TCP proxy, the certificate presented to the client by the proxy is by default generated by the proxy and signed by the private key in the keystore configured in the registration.xml. Ordinarily, this mechanism is sufficient. If full control over the generation of certificates is required, an alternative advanced approach is available. The approach requires that custom code is written to generate and sign the required certificates.

About this task

From Rational® Test Control Panel 9.2.1.1 onwards, you can programmatically create custom signed certificates that will be presented by the HTTP/TCP proxy. This feature is in addition to the existing features to add your own certificate and key to the proxy keystore, or to the existing proxy keystore, or to specify your own keystore. For more information, see HTTPS configuration settings.

Complete the following steps to programmatically create custom signed certificates and have them used in the proxy:

Procedure

Write a custom code to implement the Java interface com.hcl.products.test.it.proxy.CertificateCreator that is provided in the jar certcreator.jar contained in the <proxy_install_dir>/ext/ directory. For details of the interface and its methods, see Interface CertificateCreator.
Package the custom code into a jar. Along with the class files, the new jar must contain a file named META-INF/services/com.hcl.products.test.it.proxy.CertificateCreator. Ensure that the file contains a single line with the fully qualified class name of the implementation class of the code written in Step 1.
Add the new jar and any dependent jars to the <proxy_install_dir>/ext/ directory alongside the certcreator jar file. Ensure that you do not remove the certcreator.jar file or alter its contents.
Restart the HTTP/TCP proxy.

Results

You have created a custom certificate generation implementation and configured the HTTP/TCP proxy to use it for generating certificates.

What to do next

You can verify that the custom certificate creator class is being used by checking the log of the proxy. An information message will be included stating the name of the class in use.

For more information about how to check the logs, see HTTP/TCP proxy logs.