Enablement of Resource Monitoring services for a schedule

You can enable the Resource Monitoring service in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester for a performance schedule to monitor the resources in a schedule and capture the performance statistics of such resources during the run time of the schedule.

When you connect Rational® Performance Tester to Rational® Test Automation Server, the Resource Monitoring sources that you added at project level in Rational® Test Automation Server are displayed in Rational® Performance Tester.

You can configure Rational® Performance Tester to access Rational® Test Automation Server by using an offline user token. You must generate the offline user token from Rational® Test Automation Server that you can provide on the product Preferences window in Rational® Performance Tester so that a connection is established between Rational® Performance Tester and Rational® Test Automation Server.

After you establish the connection with Rational® Test Automation Server, you can then monitor the following Resource Monitoring sources in Rational® Performance Tester:
  • Apache httpd server
  • NGINX server
  • Java Virtual Machine
  • Windows Performance Host
  • Linux Performance Host
  • Docker Host
  • OpenMetrics exporter
  • Prometheus server
If you enable the Resource Monitoring service for a schedule, then you can add the Resource Monitoring sources by using any of the following methods:
  • Resource Monitoring sources that are displayed by names
  • Resource Monitoring sources that are displayed by labels

After you add the Resource Monitoring sources to the performance schedule that is available in your Rational® Performance Tester project, you can run the schedule from Rational® Performance Tester.

If you want to run a performance schedule from the Rational® Performance Tester command line, you can use the -overridermlabels parameter to enable the Resource Monitoring service. See Running a schedule from a command line.