Management of agents

You can find information about managing the agents that you must install on remote computers and configure the agents to register with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. After the agents are registered, you can add them to your projects and then select them as locations to run tests.

When you plan to run any of the tests on a remote agent from a project on Rational® Test Automation Server, you must have completed the following tasks:
  • Installed the agent of the same version as the version of Rational® Test Automation Server.
  • Configured the agent with your offline user token so that the agent can connect and also register with Rational® Test Automation Server.
    Note: When you configure the agent to connect to the server by using the offline user token that you generated on Rational® Test Automation Server, you become the owner of the agent.
  • Verified that you have write permissions to the majordomo.config file so that certain transactions can be written by Rational® Test Automation Server to the majordomo.config file.
    Note: You can verify if you have the Read and Write permissions by checking the properties of the majordomo.config file.
  • Viewed the agents that are registered with Rational® Test Automation Server. See Viewing performance agents that are registered with Rational Test Automation Server.

  • Added the remote agents that are registered with Rational® Test Automation Server to your project on Rational® Test Automation Server. See Viewing performance agents that are registered with Rational Test Automation Server.
    Note: After you add the remote agents to your project, Rational® Test Automation Server determines the capabilities that are provided by the remote agent and displays the details and capabilities of the agent on the Infrastructure page. You can also define the capabilities that you want to add, and then view, edit, or delete the capabilities that you defined for the agents in your project. See Working with agent capabilities.