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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 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.
Connecting and disconnecting the ETM adapter from the GUI mode
You can use the Quality Manager Adapter view to connect, disconnect, and view adapter activities from Rational® Performance Tester.

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.
    - Configuring the Engineering Test Management adapter
      You must configure the Engineering Test Management adapter to establish a successful connection between Rational® Performance Tester and Engineering Test Management.
    - Configuring the workspace directory of the adapter
      You must configure the workspace directory of the adapter to start or stop the Engineering Test Management adapter either from command-line interface or as a Windows service.
    - Connecting and disconnecting the ETM adapter from the GUI mode
      You can use the Quality Manager Adapter view to connect, disconnect, and view adapter activities from Rational® Performance Tester.
    - Starting and stopping the ETM adapter from the command line
      You can use the command-line interface to start, stop, and view activities of the Engineering Test Management adapter that you configured in Rational® Performance Tester.
    - Starting and stopping the ETM adapter as a Windows service
      You can use the Windows™ service to start, stop, and view adapter activities.
    - Importing test assets
      You can import the performance and service tests into Engineering Test Management by using an adapter.
    - Testing shared assets
      You can make test projects and assets shareable in Engineering Test Management. By sharing assets, any computer with your product, that is connected to Engineering Test Management can execute a test or schedule.
  - 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.

Connecting and disconnecting the Engineering Test Management adapter from the GUI mode

You can use the Quality Manager Adapter view to connect, disconnect, and view adapter activities from Rational® Performance Tester.

Before you begin

You must have configured the Engineering Test Management adapter. See Configuring the Engineering Test Management adapter.

About this task

In the GUI mode, when a script is run from Engineering Test Management, you can see the test run in progress inside Rational® Performance Tester as though the test were run manually in Rational® Performance Tester.

Push buttons to connect and disconnect to the Engineering Test Management server are located in the upper-right corner of Quality Manager Adapter view. This view also has a local preferences menu that you can use to control some behavior of the GUI mode adapter. If you see errors or warnings, use the Error Log view for further investigation.

Note: You must not use Rational® Performance Tester while the adapter is running. If you do so, you might interfere with the ability of the adapter to run test scripts. You must stop the adapter before you open Rational® Performance Tester.

The following image displays the activities of the adapter in the Quality Manager Adapter view:

etm_adapter_activity

Procedure

Open Rational® Performance Tester.
Click Window > Show View > Quality Manager Adapter.
Perform the following actions either to connect or disconnect the adapter:
- Click the Connect to RQM icon to connect the adapter.
- Click the Disconnect from RQM icon to disconnect the adapter.

Results

You have connected or disconnected the Engineering Test Management adapter from Rational® Performance Tester.