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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.
HTTP/TCP proxy setup
The process of configuring applications to use the HTTP/TCP proxy varies according to the application.
HTTP/TCP proxy logs
To help you troubleshoot HTTP/TCP proxy problems, a number of logging methods are available for the HTTP/TCP proxy.

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.
  - Modifying the configuration settings of the HTTP/TCP proxy
    To change the server address, log level, and other settings, you can modify the registration.xml file of the HTTP/TCP proxy.
  - Configuring a HTTP(S) reverse proxy or TCP port forwarding
    The reverse proxy capability allows applications that are unable to configure HTTP(S) forward proxying to address the proxy directly and have it forward these requests to a configured destination, which is also applicable for forwarding TCP-based communications.
  - Advanced HTTP and TCP proxy configuration
    The HTTP protocol runs on top of the TCP protocol, but provides extra information about the message destination. For that reason, the two proxies are configured differently.
  - Configuring Apache Tomcat to use HTTP/TCP proxy
    You must modify the Java™ virtual machine (JVM) so that Apache Tomcat can use an HTTP/TCP proxy. You can configure Apache Tomcat by configuring JVM options in the Tomcat startup script.
  - Configuring WebSphere® Application Server to use HTTP/TCP proxy
    You must modify the Java™ virtual machine (JVM) so that WebSphere® Application Server can use an HTTP/TCP proxy. You can do this change by setting some JVM options through the administrative console.
  - HTTP/TCP proxy logs
    To help you troubleshoot HTTP/TCP proxy problems, a number of logging methods are available for the HTTP/TCP proxy.
  - Starting and stopping the HTTP/TCP proxy
    To route and record HTTP(S) and TCP traffic with Rational® Test Control Panel and Rational Integration Tester, you must start the HTTP/TCP proxy. If the proxy is installed as a Windows service, you can configure it for an automatic start on start of the system or for a manual start on demand.
  - Programmatic custom certificate creation in proxy
    When an HTTPS connection is established with an HTTP/TCP proxy, the certificate that is presented to the client by the proxy is retrieved from an existing keypair that represent the intended endpoint or is generated as the default certificate by the proxy and is signed by the private key in the keystore that is configured in the registration.xml. Ordinarily, this mechanism is sufficient. If full control over the generation of certificates is required, an alternative advanced approach is available. The approach requires that custom code is written to generate and sign the required certificates.
- 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.

HTTP/TCP proxy logs

To help you troubleshoot HTTP/TCP proxy problems, a number of logging methods are available for the HTTP/TCP proxy.

Use these logs to troubleshoot problems with the HTTP/TCP proxy. For more information, see Troubleshooting the HTTP/TCP proxy.

Rational® Test Control Panel activity log: Logs high-level messages to the Activity log page in the Administration page.; To set the initial log level for the HTTP/TCP proxy, change the logger property in the registration.xml file. For more information, see Modifying the configuration settings of the HTTP/TCP proxy.; To change the log level of the proxy while it is running, go to the Infrastructure Dashboard in Rational® Test Control Panel, click the Log Level field for the proxy, and select a value from the list.; You can filter the activities based on the log level that are displayed under the Activities section.
Rational® Test Control Panel diagnostic log: Logs more detailed messages to the Diagnostic log page on the Administration page. The log is disabled by default. When the log is enabled, it contains the same information as the java.util.logging file in a format that you can access through Rational® Test Control Panel. For more information, see Viewing the diagnostic log and Enabling and disabling remote diagnostic logging for the HTTP/TCP proxy.
java.util.logging (JUL) log file: Logs detailed messages to a user-specified location.; You can set the file location and logging level in the proxy-logging.properties file. The default log file location is install/logs/proxy-n.log, where install is the base installation folder of the proxy server, typically the httptcp directory in the server installation directory.; When the proxy runs as a Windows service, additional log files are created in the logs directory related to the service wrapper.; To see any changes you make to the properties file, you must restart the HTTP proxy.
Note: You can run the proxy from the command line or as a service. In case you are running it as a service, use file logging to capture the logs.