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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.
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.
Techniques for troubleshooting issues in EGit
You might encounter issues while working with EGit in Rational® Performance Tester. You can find the information about certain issues and how to resolve them.

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.
    - Importing test assets from the remote Git repository
      You can import the test assets from the remote Git repository to Rational® Performance Tester and run it to test the performance of the application.
    - Pulling the changes from the remote Git repository
      You must make your local repository up-to-date by pulling the latest changes in the remote Git repository before you committ and push your updated test assets to the Git repository.
    - Publishing test assets to the remote Git repository
      When you create or update any test assets in Rational® Performance Tester, you can publish your changes to the remote Git repository. Therefore, when you publish test assets, other members in the project can use your test assets in their test run, if required.
    - Techniques for troubleshooting issues in EGit
      You might encounter issues while working with EGit in Rational® Performance Tester. You can find the information about certain issues and how to resolve them.
      - Error: Missing library files in the project
        After you pull a project in the Git perspective, Project is missing the required Library error is displayed in the Verify Problems tab. This error occurs due to the .classpath file which is specific to a workspace or system. The .classpath file needs to be pointed to the newly imported location.
      - Git merge conflicts
        Performance test projects contain certain metafiles and test assets in binary form. When you work in a collaborative test creation environment, you might encounter Git merge conflicts while you commit test assets to the remote Git repository.
      - Conflict management: errors in assets.xml
        In a collaborative work environment, the merge conflicts in assets.xml arise despite best efforts when you pull the changes from the remote upstream.
      - Conflict management: errors in test assets
        When multiple users edit and commit the same set of test assets, then while you pull or push changes to the remote Git repository, a merge conflict occurs.
  - 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.
  - 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.

Techniques for troubleshooting issues in EGit

You might encounter issues while working with EGit in Rational® Performance Tester. You can find the information about certain issues and how to resolve them.

Warning: When you initialize a new Git repository for a project in an Eclipse perspective, a .gitignore file is created in the project folder. While you commit the contents of a project to the Git repository, the .gitignore file ignores the report files. You can specify additional file types in the .gitignore file so that those file types are ignored when you commit the project contents to the Git repository.

The following topics provide more information about EGit integration issues, their causes, and the resolutions to fix the issues while you work with the Git perspective in Rational® Performance Tester.