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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.
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.
Configuring Docker containers
Instead of reading through system requirements list and installing the products, you can now deploy the Docker containers on any computer and get started with testing. To automate playing back tests, you can push the product images to the Docker container.

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.
  - Configuring the environment for SAP tests
    Some of the capabilities of service tests require that you manually install additional libraries and files or that you configure some elements of the test environment.
  - Configuring the data collection infrastructure
    If you want to collect response time breakdown data from remote computers used in distributed applications, you must install and configure the data collection infrastructure on the remote computers.
  - Configuring Docker containers
    Instead of reading through system requirements list and installing the products, you can now deploy the Docker containers on any computer and get started with testing. To automate playing back tests, you can push the product images to the Docker container.
  - Configuring IBM® Cloud Private
    To make use of automated workflows in IBM® Cloud Private, you can install it and push the Docker containers to it.
- 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.

Configuring Docker containers

Instead of reading through system requirements list and installing the products, you can now deploy the Docker containers on any computer and get started with testing. To automate playing back tests, you can push the product images to the Docker container.

Procedure

Download and install Docker-CE. For more information, see the following links:
- Windows - https://store.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-desktop-windows.
- Ubuntu - https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/.
- Others - https://store.docker.com/search?type=edition&offering=community.
To verify whether your Docker installation was successful, open PowerShell or a terminal of your choice and run:
```
$ docker run hello-world
```
Download the container image for the agents from the same location you downloaded the product bits and extract the compressed files.

Important: The version of the workbench and agents must match.
Load the agent image into the Docker repository:
```
$ docker load -i "imageFileName.tar.gz"
```
When the image is loaded, the following message is displayed - Loaded image: imageFileName:versionNumber

What to do next

You can now set up the playback environment on Docker by following instructions in Running tests with containerized agents and Running automated tests with containerized workbench and agents from Docker.