Working with agent capabilities
When you installed static agents V10.1.2 or later, and added them to your project, you can view capabilities of the agents from the Infrastructure page. When you installed static agents V10.2.0 or later, you can add, view, edit, or delete properties and capabilities of agents from the User Defined panel of that agent.
Before you begin
You must have completed the following tasks:
- Been assigned a Member or Project Creator role in a team space.
- Been assigned the Owner or Tester role in the project to which you want to add the agent.
- Owned at least one agent that is not added to the project.
- Installed the agent V10.2.0. See Test run considerations for running tests on remote agents.
- Added agents to your project. See Adding an agent to a project.
Procedure
- Log in to Rational® Test Automation Server and open the team space.
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Open your project, and then click .
The agents that you added to your project are displayed on the Infrastructure page.
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Expand the agent.
The Details and Capabilities tabs are displayed.
- Click Capabilities to view the capabilities of the agent.
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Click User Defined.
The User Defined Capabilities dialog box is displayed.
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Complete the steps for the task that you want to perform as listed in the following table:
Task Action Adding capabilities Perform the following actions:- Click Add new.
- Enter the name of the capability in the Capability Name field.
- Perform any of the following actions in the User Defined Category field:
- Select an existing category from the list.
- Enter a name of the category for the capability, if the category does not exist.Note: You can also click Add new to add a category.
The category for the capability is either selected or created and the fields for the property name and value are displayed.Note: The property for a capability is a name-value pair. - Enter a name for the property in the Property Name field and its corresponding value in the Property Value field for the capability.Note: You can add multiple properties for the same capability under the same category or under different categories by clicking Add new property, and then by entering the name and value for the property.
- Click Save.
Viewing capabilities that you added The User Defined Capabilities panel displays the capabilities that you added to the agent.
Editing capabilities that you added Perform the following actions:- Click the Edit icon
in the row of the capability that you want to edit.The user-defined capability is enabled for editing. You can edit the name of the capability, or the property name or property value.
- Edit any of the items that you want for the user-defined capability.
- Click Update.
Deleting capabilities that you added - Click the Delete icon
in the row of the capability that you want to delete. - Click Delete.
Deleting a property defined for a capability - Click the Edit icon in the row of the capability that you want to edit and remove a defined property.
The user-defined capability is enabled for editing.
- Select and delete the contents in the Property Name field and its corresponding Property Value field.
- Click Update.