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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester software. 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.
Integrating
Read these topics to learn how the product works when integrated with other products.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester software. 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.
- Installing
  Installing the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
- Upgrading and migrating
  You can upgrade to Rational® Performance Tester V10.1.2 either from V10.1.0 or V10.1.1.
- Configuring
  Use these topics to configure the product.
- Integrating
  Read these topics to learn how the product works when integrated with other products.
  - Testing with Engineering Workflow Management
    You can manage test assets with Jazz™ source control management by integrating the test workbench with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational Team Concert) eclipse client.
  - Testing with Engineering Test Management
    By integrating IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with the product, you can initiate the test runs from Engineering Test Management. Read these topics to learn about how to configure Engineering Test Management.
  - 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 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.
  - 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).
  - 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.
  - 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.
  - 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.
  - 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.
  - 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 UrbanCode Deploy
    When you use UrbanCode™ Deploy (UCD) for automating application deployments of your application, you can create tests for your application in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester and run those tests in UrbanCode Deploy by using the IBM Rational Performance Tester UCD plugin.
  - Integrating with Apache JMeter
    Starting from 9.5, you can use JMeter tests extension with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to execute JMeter tests.

Integrating

Read these topics to learn how the product works when integrated with other products.