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Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. This guide is intended for test managers.
Logs overview
Rational® Performance Tester uses logs to store different types of information, which you can use to determine the reason for a test failure.
Accessing reports remotely
Before executing a schedule or test, you can enable an option so that you can access reports remotely from a web browser. When you make changes to a report, the changes are saved to the workspace where the workbench is running.

Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. This guide is intended for test managers.
- Evaluating results in web analytic reports
  After the test run, evaluate the results in the web analytic reports. Web analytics collect data using new technologies thereby providing better user experience.
- Logs overview
  Rational® Performance Tester uses logs to store different types of information, which you can use to determine the reason for a test failure.
  - Viewing test logs
    To see a record of all the events that occurred during a test run or a schedule run, as well as the status of each verification point, open the test log for that run. You can also compare an event from the test log with the request or response in the test to view the differences between the recording and the playback of the test.
  - Viewing errors while running tests
    To view errors and other events while a test is running, use the Execution Event Console view. If problems occur in a test run, you can examine the Execution Event Console view to determine whether to stop or continue the test.
  - Viewing reports after a run
    Reports are generated and displayed automatically after a run. Each test result begins with the name of the schedule or test, and ends with the timestamp of the run in brackets.
  - Accessing reports remotely
    Before executing a schedule or test, you can enable an option so that you can access reports remotely from a web browser. When you make changes to a report, the changes are saved to the workspace where the workbench is running.
  - Exporting test logs
    To process data from a performance test in another application or to use search tools to locate text in a test log, export the test log to a text file.
  - Exporting event log
    To view all the events that occurred during the run of a test from another file, you can export this data from the Event Log panel, to an XML, CSV, or text file.
  - Exporting event console output
    To view errors and other events of a test run from another file, you can export this data from the Execution Event Console view to an XML, CSV, or text file.
  - Viewing adjustments to page response times
    To see the adjustments to page response times that are measured during a test run or a schedule run, open the test log for that run.
  - Viewing resource monitoring data
    You can analyze the performance of the computer resources, application server, or database servers by viewing the resource monitoring data in web analytics reports.
- Reports and counters
  After the tests or schedules are run and completed, you can view the results and open the reports to analyze the verdict, the performance, and statistics.

Accessing reports remotely

Before executing a schedule or test, you can enable an option so that you can access reports remotely from a web browser. When you make changes to a report, the changes are saved to the workspace where the workbench is running.

Procedure

Open Rational® Performance Tester
Click Windows > Preferences > Test > Performance Test Reports > Web Reports.
Select the Allow remote access from a web browser checkbox to enable remote access to reports.
Select the Allow control of schedule execution from the web browser checkbox to enable the remote control of schedule execution tasks.
Optional: Enter the port number in the Secure port field if the default port number is used by another service.
The default secure port number for web reports is 8443.
Select the User aunthentication is required to access reports checkbox to provide security for web reports.
Enter the crendetials in the Username and Password fields.

Note: You must use the same login credentials to access reports remotely.
Optional: Select the Also enable non-secured access checkbox to access the web reports by anyone who has the URL of web report.
Optional: Enter the port number in the Non-secure port field if the default port number is used by another service.
The default non-secure port number for web reports is 8080.
Click Apply.

Results

You have accessed reports remotely.

What to do next

The URL of the web reports is displayed in the Reports will be available at section. You can click Copy and paste the URL http://host_name:8080/analytics/web/index.html in a web browser to access it. To access a secured report, you must specify the login credentials that you have set in the preference of Rational® Performance Tester.