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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.
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.
Task flow: Working with the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Network dashboard
You can use the Rational® Test Control Panel Network dashboard to perform administrative tasks such as viewing recording or routing rules configured for agents and proxies.

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.
  - Installation of Rational® Integration Tester
    You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Integration Tester from the IBM Rational Test Workbench or IBM Rational Integration Tester 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.
  - Configuration of Rational® Integration Tester
  - 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.
    - Configuring IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel
      You might need to configure the Rational® Test Control Panel after the application is installed.
    - Getting started
      Start using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel.
    - Task flow: Working with the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Environments dashboard
      You can use the Rational® Test Control Panel Environments dashboard to perform various tasks such as starting, stopping stubs and scenarios, and modifying stub configurations after you have published stubs to Rational Test Control Panel. You can also lock the environment that contain the published stubs.
    - Task flow: Working with the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Infrastructure dashboard
      You can use the Rational® Test Control Panel Infrastructure dashboard to perform administrative tasks such as viewing agents and proxies registered with Rational Test Control Panel.
    - Task flow: Working with the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Network dashboard
      You can use the Rational® Test Control Panel Network dashboard to perform administrative tasks such as viewing recording or routing rules configured for agents and proxies.
    - Managing users
      IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel has multiple choices associated with its security model. Depending on the security option selected during installation of the Rational Test Control Panel, different options are available based on the user accounts.
    - Managing domains
      How to create and manage domains in IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel.
    - Working with Rational® Test Control Panel dashboards
      You can filter, search, sort, and choose the number of items to be displayed in IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel dashboards.
    - Deleting environments
      This topic explains how to delete environments.
    - Agent and Proxy administration
      Use IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel to view and control any of the Rational Integration Tester agents or proxies.
    - Viewing Rational® Test Control Panel logs
      If you are an IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel administrator, you can view the audit, activity, and diagnostic logs of Rational Test Control Panel.
    - Viewing reports in Rational® Test Automation Server
      All the project stakeholders can view test reports for multiple testing products from the Results page on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. You can access the Results page from a web browser. Therefore, there is no need to install the desktop client.
    - Configuring stubs to connect to Rational® Test Control Panel and the HTTP proxy
      A stub running on its own may not be sufficient in some cases, because it might have dependencies on services such as Rational® Test Control Panel or the HTTP proxy. If the stub is running on the public cloud and the services are running in the enterprise, you must configure the stub to connect to these services.
    - 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.
  - Integrations
    Rational® Integration Tester supports integration with various other tools for quality management, change management, software configuration management, and deployment automation tools such as UrbanCode™ Deploy.
- 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
  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.

Task flow: Working with the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Network dashboard

You can use the Rational® Test Control Panel Network dashboard to perform administrative tasks such as viewing recording or routing rules configured for agents and proxies.

The task flow presents tasks that an Administrator can perform in the Rational® Test Control Panel Network dashboard. The following links to the associated topics provide more information to complete the tasks.

The following table provides a list of the tasks to be performed in a sequence along with the link to the corresponding topic for the details of the task.
	Task	More information
1.	Register the IBM® Rational® Integration Tester Agent with Rational® Test Control Panel.	Registering Rational Integration Tester Agent with Rational Test Control Panel
2.	Configure Rational® Test Control Panel to use HTTPS communication protocol.	Configuring Rational Test Control Panel
3.	Set up the recording rule for the type of traffic being tested by the test application you are running. Select from the following supported types of traffic.
3.1	Set up recording of HTTP/HTTPS traffic.	Recording HTTP and HTTPS traffic
3.2	Set up recording of TCP traffic.	Recording TCP traffic
3.3	Set up recording of Java Message Service (JMS) traffic.	Recording Java Message Service (JMS) traffic
3.4	Set up recording of Java method calls.	Recording Java method calls
3.5	Set up recording of SQL statements to create database stubs.	Creating database stubs by using the Recording Studio
4.	Log in to Rational® Test Control Panel.	Logging in and out
5.	Use the landing page of RTCP to navigate to the Network dashboard.	Navigating the user interface
6.	Learn about features you can use while working in the Network dashboard to sort and search for agents and proxies.	Working with Rational Test Control Panel dashboards
7.	View the recording or routing rules configured for agents or proxies running in Rational® Test Control Panel.	Viewing recording or routing rules