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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.
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.

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.
  - 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.
    - Creating a test script in Micro Focus ALM
      You must create a VAPI-XP-TEST type of test script on Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to provide the details of the performance test runs.
    - Configuring test scripts in Micro Focus ALM
      You must configure the test script that you created in Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run the performance test assets.
    - Running tests from Micro Focus ALM
      You can run test assets from Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to test the performance of your application under test.

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.

When you have Micro Focus ALM to manage the life cycle of your application under test, you can create test scripts to run it from Micro Focus ALM. You must use the content of the available template from the installation directory of Rational® Performance Tester to create test scripts. The template is based on Microsoft VBScript and supports VAPI-XP test scripts. You can then run those test scripts from Micro Focus ALM and analyze the test results. For information about Micro Focus ALM, refer to ALM Help Center.

The following table lists the tasks that you must perform to run test assets from Micro Focus ALM:

Tasks	More information
Create any or all of the following types of tests in Rational® Performance Tester to test your application: Compound tests Performance tests Schedules (Rate or VU Schedules)	See Test Author Guide.
Install Micro Focus ALM.	For more information about the installation of Micro Focus ALM, refer to the ALM Help Center. For more information about specific versions of software requirements, see System Requirements.
Create a test script in Micro Focus ALM.	See Creating a test script in Micro Focus ALM.
Copy the content of the template file and configure the test script in Micro Focus ALM.	See Configuring test scripts in Micro Focus ALM.
Run performance test assets as test scripts from Micro Focus ALM.	See Running tests from Micro Focus ALM.