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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester. 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.
Integration with other products
You can integrate Rational® Performance Tester Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
Integration with Engineering Test Management
You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with Rational Performance Tester to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
Configuring the workspace directory of the adapter
You must configure the workspace directory of the adapter to start or stop the Engineering Test Management adapter either from command-line interface or as a Windows service.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester. 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 of Rational® Performance Tester
  Installing the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
- License management
  Licensing for your installed IBM® software and customized packages is administered through the Manage Licenses wizard in the IBM Installation Manager. The Manage Licenses wizard displays license information for each installed package.
- Product upgrade and migration
  When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of Rational® Performance Tester Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality, you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- Configuration of the product
  You must configure Rational® Performance Tester when you want to run SAP tests, collect response time breakdown data, or use the product in the Docker container.
- Integration with other products
  You can integrate Rational® Performance Tester Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester.
  - Testing with Ant
    You can use ant to run performance and compound tests from the command line. Starting from V2.0.0 of the ant plugin, you can run multiple tests simultaneously. V5.0 of the ant plugin is supported in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester V10.0.2 of the testing products.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with Rational Performance Tester by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
  - Integrating with Apache JMeter
    Starting from 9.5, you can use JMeter tests extension with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to execute JMeter tests.
  - EGit integration
    EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system. You can store your test assets in the Git repository and use EGit for the daily version control operations.
  - Integration with Engineering Test Management
    You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with Rational Performance Tester to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
    - Configuring the Engineering Test Management adapter
      You must configure the Engineering Test Management adapter to establish a successful connection between Rational® Performance Tester and Engineering Test Management.
    - Configuring the workspace directory of the adapter
      You must configure the workspace directory of the adapter to start or stop the Engineering Test Management adapter either from command-line interface or as a Windows service.
    - Connecting and disconnecting the ETM adapter from the GUI mode
      You can use the Quality Manager Adapter view to connect, disconnect, and view adapter activities from Rational® Performance Tester.
    - Starting and stopping the ETM adapter from the command line
      You can use the command-line interface to start, stop, and view activities of the Engineering Test Management adapter that you configured in Rational® Performance Tester.
    - Starting and stopping the ETM adapter as a Windows service
      You can use the Windows™ service to start, stop, and view adapter activities.
    - Importing test assets
      You can import the performance and service tests into Engineering Test Management by using an adapter.
    - Testing shared assets
      You can make test projects and assets shareable in Engineering Test Management. By sharing assets, any computer with your product, that is connected to Engineering Test Management can execute a test or schedule.
  - Integration with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
    You can integrate Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) to create and track defects (bugs) or other work items, as a defect tracking tool in Rational Performance Tester.
  - Testing with Rational® Integration Tester
    Starting from V9.1.1, you can use Rational® Integration Tester extension to execute Integration tests. In Rational Performance Tester, you can either import the projects from Rational Integration Tester or manage them from Rational Performance Tester by establishing the connection between the products. In Rational Performance Tester, you can create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
  - Integration of Jaeger with the product
    Jaeger is software for tracing transactions between distributed services. You can use Jaeger to monitor and troubleshoot complex microservices environments.
  - Testing with Jenkins
    You can use the Rational® Performance Tester Jenkins plugin for performance testing to run tests on a Jenkins server by using a Jenkins build step.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting from V9.2.0, you can use the Maven plug-in that is provided with the testing product to run tests as part of your Maven build. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM).
  - Integrating and running performance test scripts in Micro Focus ALM
    To obtain test result details, you must integrate and run performance test scripts in Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) by using a readily available template available in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester installation directory.

Configuring the workspace directory of the adapter

You must configure the workspace directory of the adapter to start or stop the Engineering Test Management adapter either from command-line interface or as a Windows service.

About this task

If the Use resources that are local to a test machine option is set in Engineering Test Management, then the WORKSPACE_DIR must be set to the same workspace where your test assets are located.

Procedure

Locate the adapter.config file in the product_install_dir\RPT-RST_RQMAdapter\config\ directory.
Where product_install_dir is the directory where Rational® Performance Tester is installed.
For example, C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP.
Edit the WORKSPACE_DIR variable in the adapter.config file to point to the same test workspace that you want the adapter to use.

For example, WORKSPACE_DIR= C:\Users\username\IBM\rationalsdp\my_adapter_workspace.

Results

You have configured the workspace directory of the adapter.

What to do next

You can start or stop the Engineering Test Management adapter either from command-line interface or as a Windows service.