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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 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.

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.
  - 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.

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.

Before you begin

You must have downloaded and installed Docker-CE. For more information, refer to the following Docker documentations:

Procedure

Open PowerShell or a terminal of your choice and run the following command to verify whether your Docker installation was successful:
```
$ docker run hello-world
```
Download the container image for the agents from the same location that you downloaded the product bits and extract the compressed files.

Important: The version of the product and agents must match.
Run the following command to load the agent image into the Docker repository:
```
tar --wildcards --to-command='docker load' -xzf imageFileName.tar.gz 'images/*'
```
For example, to load the 10.2.0 Docker image, you can use the following command:
```
tar --wildcards --to-command='docker load' -xzf ibm-rpta-10.2.tar.gz 'images/*'
```
When the image is loaded, the following message is displayed:
Loaded image: imageFileName:versionNumber

What to do next

You must set up the playback environment on Docker. See Running tests with containerized agents and Running automated tests with containerized workbench and agents from Docker.