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Rational® Performance Test Server
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.
Technical Tester Guide
Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
Deploying probes
A Rational® Integration Tester probe measures variables from a particular component in the system and reports back its findings for processing and storage.

Rational® Performance Test Server
- 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 IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server.
- 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.
- 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.
  - Technical Tester Guide
    Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
    - Creating and running performance tests
      This topic describes how to create, configure, and run performance tests.
    - View test results
      This topic describes how to work with IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server charts in the Results Gallery perspective.
    - Deploying probes
      A Rational® Integration Tester probe measures variables from a particular component in the system and reports back its findings for processing and storage.
      - System statistics probe
        The System Statistics (Systat) probe runs on Windows™ or Linux™ and captures key system statistics for the target host.
      - Windows™ performance monitor probe
        The Windows™ Performance Monitor probe captures the same statistics for the target host as those available through the Performance Monitor (perfmon.msc) on Windows systems.
      - TIBCO BusinessWorks probe
        The TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) probe accesses the TIBCO Hawk microagents within BusinessWorks to collects execution statistics from running BusinessWorks processes.
      - TIBCO Rendezvous probe
        The TIBCO Rendezvous (RV) probe captures Rendezvous daemon (RVD) status messages that contain messaging and error rates.
      - TIBCO Rendezvous distributed queues probe
        The TIBCO Rendezvous Distributed Queues (RVDQ) probe uses Rendezvous daemon (RVD) transports to collect RV Distributed Queue statistics.
      - TIBCO Rendezvous trace probe
        The TIBCO Rendezvous Trace (RVTRACE) probe uses the TIBCO program rvtrace to monitor networks and capture Rendezvous daemon (RVD) subject statistics.
      - TIBCO EMS probe
      - webMethods Broker probe
        The webMethods Broker probe collects statistics for webMethods brokers, event types, clients, and client groups.
      - webMethods Integration Server probe
        The webMethods Integration Server probe collects statistics for the server and for specific webMethods services.
      - Handling probe errors
  - Integration 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. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
- 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.

Deploying probes

A Rational® Integration Tester probe measures variables from a particular component in the system and reports back its findings for processing and storage.

Probes are started by the agent on the local computer. Therefore, the agent software must be installed on that computer. More than one probe may be run from the same agent, but only one performance test controller at a time can use the probes of an individual agent.

The probe process will terminate if it cannot contact the performance test controller that started it by means of the agent. For Windows™ users, the probe process name is Probe.exe. For Unix-like system users, the probe process is a Java™ process that may be identified by using long ps output.

The probe process configuration file is Probe.config, which is located in Agent_installation_directory\config. This file can be edited to configure the level and location of the logging.