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Administrator Guide
Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
Running Rational® Integration Tester Agent on Microsoft™ Windows™
On computers running Microsoft™ Windows™, the agent is typically installed and run as a Windows service.

Administrator Guide
Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
- Installation of Rational® Integration Tester Agent
  You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Integration Tester Agent from the IBM Rational Test Workbench, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, or package.
- Installation of Rational® Test Control Panel
  You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel from the IBM Rational Test Workbench, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, or IBM Rational Performance Test Server package.
- Upgrading Rational® Integration Tester Agent
  In general, you can upgrade from earlier versions of Rational® Integration Tester Agent to the most recent version without having to uninstall the software. Use the Installation Manager Update option to upgrade the software.
- License management
  As a purchaser of an IBM® Rational® software product, you can choose from the different types of product licenses that you can deploy to use the product.
- Configuring Rational® Integration Tester Agent
  After you install Rational® Integration Tester Agent, you must edit or modify the attributes in the Agent.config file for the features that you want to test by using the agent. You need to configure the libraries to enable testing the SUT based on certain technologies and also set up the required proxies for enabling testing.
- Running Rational® Integration Tester Agent on Microsoft™ Windows™
  On computers running Microsoft™ Windows™, the agent is typically installed and run as a Windows service.
- Running Rational® Integration Tester Agent on Unix-like systems
  On Unix-like systems, you can start Rational® Integration Tester Agent by running the Agent executable in the root of the Rational Integration Tester Agent installation directory (for example, /opt/IBM/RIT-Agent/).
- Troubleshooting: Rational® Integration Tester Agent
  You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you install and run the Rational® Integration Tester Agent.
- HTTP/TCP proxy setup
  The process of configuring applications to use the HTTP/TCP proxy varies according to the application.
- Setting up the JDBC proxy
  After you install the JDBC proxy, you must deploy the proxy into the Java™ virtual machine (JVM) of the relevant applications, set up the proxy for use, and verify that it is deployed.
- Administering IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Rational® Test Control Panel
  is a server-based web application providing a central repository for virtualized services. The Rational® Test Control Panel allows you to use virtual services published with Rational Integration Tester to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in IBM® Rational Test Virtualization Server.

Running Rational® Integration Tester Agent on Microsoft™ Windows™

On computers running Microsoft™ Windows™, the agent is typically installed and run as a Windows™ service.

Procedure

To verify that the agent service is installed, open the Services applet in Control Panel by clicking Start > (All) Programs > Administrative Tools > Services. The Windows™ service name is IBM RIT Agent.
To install or remove the Windows™ service manually, use Installation Manager.
To start or stop the Windows™ service, you have three options:
1. Click Start > IBM Rational Integration Tester Agent > Start Agent or Start > IBM Rational Integration Tester Agent > Stop Agent.
2. Using the Services applet in Control Panel, right-click IBM RIT Agent and click Start or Stop on the pop-up menu.
3. Using a command prompt with administrative privileges, use the following net commands to start or stop the agent service:
  - net start IBMRITAgent
  - net stop IBMRITAgent
Note: For some locales, if you run the agent in the command window and observe that the message text is not correctly displayed, use the chcp command. For example: run the chcp 1251 command to view the messages in Russian language. For more information on the codes, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page.