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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.
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 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.
Instrumenting local servers
You must instrument application servers to collect response time breakdown data. You can use either a command-line or graphical user interface to instrument application servers to work with the data collection infrastructure.
Tips for instrumenting WebSphere® Application Server
Follow these tips when you instrument WebSphere® Application Server to collect response time breakdown data.

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.
  - 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.
    - Data collection infrastructure overview
      The data collection infrastructure collects performance profiling data for distributed applications and sends the data to the workbench computer, where you can view and analyze the collected data. The data collection infrastructure must be installed, configured, and running on all remote computers that will be used in your distributed application. The data collection infrastructure is installed when you install Rational® Performance Tester Agent.
    - Instrumenting local servers
      You must instrument application servers to collect response time breakdown data. You can use either a command-line or graphical user interface to instrument application servers to work with the data collection infrastructure.
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      - Tips for instrumenting WebSphere® Application Server
        Follow these tips when you instrument WebSphere® Application Server to collect response time breakdown data.
    - Instrumenting servers by using the command prompt
      You must instrument application servers to collect response time breakdown data. You can use either a command prompt or graphical user interface to instrument application servers to work with the data collection infrastructure.
    - Removing instrumentation
      Before you uninstall the data collection infrastructure, you must remove instrumentation from all application servers that were instrumented to work with the data collection infrastructure.
    - Removing instrumentation using the command prompt
      Before you uninstall the data collection infrastructure, you must remove instrumentation from all application servers that were instrumented to work with the data collection infrastructure.
  - Configuring Docker containers
    Instead of reading through the 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 IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.

Tips for instrumenting WebSphere® Application Server

Follow these tips when you instrument WebSphere® Application Server to collect response time breakdown data.

The instance of WebSphere® Application Server to instrument must be running.
You must instrument with an account with root or administrator privileges.
If security is enabled for WebSphere® Application Server, you must know the WebSphere® Application Server administrator ID and password before you can instrument the server.
Vertical clusters are not supported. You can instrument a horizontal cluster by instrumenting each physical server separately.

You must provide correct information in the Application Server Instrumenter.

Server home is the complete path to the WebSphere® Application Server installation directory. By default, on Microsoft™ Windows™ the server home is C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer. In Linux™ and AIX®, the default server home is /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer.

Server name is the name of the WebSphere® Application Server instance to instrument. To see a list of server names, change to the bin directory, and type this command at a command prompt: wsadmin -conntype none -c "puts stdout [$AdminConfig list Server]".

An example of output from this command is as follows:

WASX7357I: By request, this scripting client is not connected to any server process. Certain configuration and application operations will be available in local mode. server1(cells/MachinenameNode01Cell/nodes/MachinenameNode01/servers/server1|server.xml#Server_1183122130078)

In this case, server1 is the server name.

Profile name is the name of the profile that is associated with the server to instrument.

To see a list of profiles from WebSphere® Application Server, change to the bin directory, and type this command at a command prompt: manageprofiles -listProfiles. By default, in Microsoft™ Windows™ the bin directory is C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\bin. In Linux™ and AIX®, the default bin directory is /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin.