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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 IBM® Cloud Private
To make use of automated workflows in IBM® Cloud Private, you can install it and push the Docker containers to it.

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 IBM® Cloud Private

To make use of automated workflows in IBM® Cloud Private, you can install it and push the Docker containers to it.

About this task

You must use IBM® Cloud Private 2.1.0.3.

Procedure

Install and set up IBM® Cloud Private-CE.
For more information, see documentation.
Install the IBM® Cloud Private Command Line Interface (CLI).
For more information, see documentation.
Download the Rational® Performance Tester and IBM® Rational® Performance Tester Agent container images from the same location you downloaded the product bits.
The images are in the form of Passport Advantage (PPA) files. You can load the PPA files directly to IBM® Cloud Private instead of extracting the Docker image out of it.
Load the images into Docker repository:
For Windows, use the command in GitBash:
```
$ docker load -i "imageFileName.tar.gz"
```
For Linux, use the terminal:
```
tar --wildcards --to-command='docker load' -xzf imageName 'images/*'
```
Note: The imageName can be the agent image ibm-rpta-9.2.1.tar.gz or the workbench image.
When the image is loaded, following message is displayed - Loaded image: imageFileName:versionNumber
Before pushing the Docker image to IBM® Cloud Private cluster, configure the authentication from Docker CLI. For more information, see the documentation.

Load the images to the IBM® Cloud Private cluster by using any of the following methods:

Use Docker to log in to the cluster and push the image:

To log in from your client system to the private image registry:
```
$ docker login cluster_CA_domain:8500
```

To tag the images:

$ docker tag imagename:tagname cluster_CA_domain:8500/namespacename/imagename:tagname

To push the images to the cluster:

docker push cluster_CA_domain:8500/namespacename/imagename:tagname

Use the IBM® Cloud Private CLI to push the images:

bx pr load-ppa-archive --archive ibm-rpta-imageVersion.tar.gz

bx pr load-ppa-archive --archive ibm-rtw-imageVersion.tar.gz

What to do next

You can now set up the playback environment in IBM® Cloud Private. See Running automated tests with containerized agents on IBM Cloud Private and Running automated tests with containerized workbench and agents on IBM Cloud Private.