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Troubleshooting Rational® Integration Tester
While working with Rational® Integration Tester, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot.

Rational® Integration Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about What's new, installation, known issues, and contact information of IBM Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for Rational® Integration Tester.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Integration Tester.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install Rational® Integration Tester. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Tester Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for tracking the quality of the application. This guide is intended for Test Managers.
- Troubleshooting Rational® Integration Tester
  While working with Rational® Integration Tester, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot.
  - Troubleshooting: Installation and configuration
    You can troubleshoot some of the problems that you might encounter when you are installing, configuring, or running Rational® Integration Tester.
  - Global problem notifications
    Problems can occur at a time when Rational® Integration Tester cannot display an error message. Instead, a warning icon is displayed. Double-clicking the icon reveals a list of errors.
  - Working with Rational® Integration Tester logs
    To configure the Rational® Integration Tester logs, including those for the RunTest command when run from the command line, update the Rational Integration Tester logging properties file.
  - Working with Rational® Integration Tester Agent logs
    To configure the Rational® Integration Tester Agent logs, including those for the RunTests command when run from the command line, update the Rational Integration Tester Agent logging properties file.
  - Working with RQMAgent logs
    To configure the RQMAgent logs, update the RQMAgent logging properties file.
  - Locating the logging properties files
    When you install Rational® Integration Tester, Rational Integration Tester Agent, or Rational Test Control Panel including the HTTP/TCP proxy, several logging properties files are added to each installation's home directory.
  - Logging references
    You can use the following list of logging-related information to help you find information about the logs that are supported by Rational® Integration Tester. All of the programs use the Java logging framework. For details, see the Java logging framework documentation.
  - Debugging failed Windows™ services
    If one of the programs fails to start as a Windows™ service, it can be difficult to determine the cause. Typically the service fails to start but gives no indication of why. The Windows Event log has nothing useful and the process might not have created its log file.
  - Troubleshooting: Installation and configuration
    You can troubleshoot some of the problems that you might encounter when you are installing, configuring, or running Rational® Integration Tester.
  - Troubleshooting: transports, tests, and resources
    Workarounds and solutions for transport diagnostics, creating and running tests, and saving and renaming objects are contained in this topic.
  - 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.
  - Troubleshooting: Rational® Test Control Panel
    You can use workarounds to troubleshoot common problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel.
  - Troubleshooting: Rational® Test Virtualization Server
    You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server.
  - Troubleshooting: Software AG webMethods
    You can use workarounds to problems that you might encounter when you use the Software AG webMethods.
  - Troubleshooting: Websphere MQ
    You can use workarounds to problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® WebSphere® MQ with Rational® Integration Tester.
  - Troubleshooting: WebSphere® Application Server
    You can use workarounds to problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® WebSphere® Application Server products with Rational® Integration Tester.
  - Troubleshooting: WebSphere® Portal
    You can use workarounds to problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® WebSphere® Portal products with Rational® Integration Tester.
  - Troubleshooting: TIBCO
    You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you are testing TIBCO products in Rational® Integration Tester.
  - Troubleshooting: Java™ method transport
    You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you use the Java™ method transport of Rational® Integration Tester.
  - Troubleshooting: HTTP and Web Services
    You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you use HTTP and Web Services.
  - Troubleshooting: TCP UDP sockets
    You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you use TCP and UDP transports.
  - Troubleshooting: Testing on IBM® z/OS®
    You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® z/OS® with Rational® Integration Tester.
- Rational® Integration Tester reference
  Rational® Integration Tester is a scripting-free environment for developing tests for service-oriented architecture (SOA) messaging and business process integration projects. Tests can be built by recording existing system behaviors or from requirements, by entering the data to send and the data that is expected in return.
- Security Considerations
  You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
- Notices
  This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for product documentation.

Troubleshooting Rational® Integration Tester

While working with Rational® Integration Tester, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot.

In addition to the list of problems that you might encounter, these resources are available to help you troubleshoot Rational® Integration Tester problems. Known problems of Rational® Integration Tester are documented in the form of individual technotes in the Support Knowledge Base. As problems are discovered and resolved, the knowledge base is updated and maintained with new information. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

You can contact IBM® Software Support if you are unable to troubleshoot the problem. Gather all the required background information and provide the details to the IBM® Software Support for investigation. For more information, see the General product information topics.