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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester. After you install the product, 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 IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
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.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester. After you install the product, 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
  Installation of 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, 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 IBM® Rational® Performance Tester 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 Rational® Performance Tester.
  - Running tests by using Ant
    When you want to automate repetitive tasks, you can run performance test assets from the command-line interface by using Ant.
  - 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 Rational® Performance Tester and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines.
  - Integration with Apache JMeter
    You can use JMeter tests extension with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to run JMeter tests.
  - EGit integration
    You can store your test assets in the remote Git repository and use EGit for version control operations. EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system.
  - 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.
  - 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.
  - Integration with IBM® Rational® Integration Tester
    You can use Rational® Integration Tester extension to run integration tests from 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. You can also create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
  - Integration with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy
    You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy to run performance test assets as a Process from UrbanCode Deploy.
  - 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.
    - Viewing test logs in Jaeger
      You can use the Jaeger UI to view the test logs of the tests or schedules that you run from the command-line interface to analyze traces of transactions between distributed services.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    You can use the Rational® Performance Tester Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting from 9.2.0, 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).
  - Integration with Micro Focus ALM
    You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run performance test assets from Micro Focus ALM.

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.

You can set up the Jaeger UI in your local environment by using one of the following methods:

One Jaeger agent shared by all Rational® Performance Tester agents
One Jaeger agent for each Rational® Performance Tester agent

One Jaeger agent shared by all Rational® Performance Tester agents

When you use this method, ensure that the Jaeger agent is accessible by Rational® Performance Tester and all the Rational® Performance Tester agents. You must set the JAEGER_AGENT_HOST property as an environment variable by using the command line before running the schedule.

You must also ensure that the Jaeger agent ports 6831, 6832, and 5778 are accessible from other computers to communicate with the Rational® Performance Tester agent via the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). If you want to define any other Jaeger environment variables, set those environment variables only on Rational® Performance Tester.

One Jaeger agent for each Rational® Performance Tester agent

When you use this method, you must install the Jaeger agent in the same location where you installed Rational® Performance Tester and on all the Rational® Performance Tester agents.

You must also ensure that the Jaeger agent ports 6831, 6832, and 5778 are accessible from other processes on the same computer to communicate with the Rational® Performance Tester agent via the UDP. If you want to define any other Jaeger environment variables, set those environment variables on all the computers where the Jaeger agent is installed.

For more information about Jaeger, refer to Jaeger documentation.