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Rational® Integration Tester
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.
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.

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 IBM® 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.
  - 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.
  - 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.
        Configuring the TIBCO Rendezvous Trace probe
        How to configure the TIBCO RVD probe.
        Using the rvtrace program
        You can set the rvtrace program to listen for SNMP connections from the TIBCO Rendezvous Trace probe.
      - 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 (Service Virtualization)
    This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for using virtual services or stubs to simulate parts of an environment if the real services are not yet available or because they are difficult or expensive to use. This guide is intended for Integration Testers.
- 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
  While working with Rational® Integration Tester, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot.
- Reference Guide
  This guide provides the topics to help the Integration tester use the product by using the user interface, commands or scripts. 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.

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.

Note: rvtrace is a tool that network administrators can use to monitor and categorize network packets in addition to reporting statistics at regular intervals. Licenses for rvtrace are purchased separately from Rendezvous component licenses. For more information about rvtrace licensing, contact your local TIBCO representative.

The TIBCO Rendezvous Trace probe connects to one or more running instances of rvtrace by means of an SNMP interface and collects data in the following categories:

Subject
Point-to-Point
Multicast
Network
Retransmission

For example, the Subject data category contains messaging rates broken down by individual subjects, either as the number of messages or the number of bytes. (For a full description of all data items, refer to TIBCO Rendezvous documentation or visit the TIBCO website.)

By running multiple instances of rvtrace, it is possible to monitor more than one network.

Note: You should check your probe licensing agreement to verify that you are allowed to monitor all of the networks planned because there may be geographic or environment restrictions.

The following topic describes how to use the rvtrace program.