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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.
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.
Adding Microsoft™ SQL Server and MySQL drivers
Microsoft™ SQL Server and MySQL drivers are not supplied with Rational® Test Control Panel. If you want to use SQL Server or MySQL with Rational Test Control Panel, you must copy the SQL Server or MySQL drivers to the Rational Test Control Panel installation directory.

Rational® Test Virtualization 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 Rational® Test Virtualization 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.
  - 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.
  - 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.
    - Configuring IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel
      You might need to configure the Rational® Test Control Panel after the application is installed.
      - Using your own truststore for server SSL connections
        The server by default provides a truststore but you might want to use your own truststore for server SSL connections.
      - Configuring the server HTTP Endpoint
        The server supports both HTTP and HTTPS connections but by default is HTTPS only. It is possible to enable, disable, and change the ports that are used by both HTTP and HTTPS server connections.
      - Registering Rational® Integration Tester Agent with Rational® Test Control Panel
        IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel runs stubs on agents. Agents can also be used to run scheduled tests. During the installation of the Rational Integration Tester Agent, the agent is configured to register with Rational Test Control Panel instances so that they are available for running stubs or running scheduled tests.
      - Adding Microsoft™ SQL Server and MySQL drivers
        Microsoft™ SQL Server and MySQL drivers are not supplied with Rational® Test Control Panel. If you want to use SQL Server or MySQL with Rational Test Control Panel, you must copy the SQL Server or MySQL drivers to the Rational Test Control Panel installation directory.
      - Modifying Rational® Test Control Panel security model settings after installation
        This section explains how to modify IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel security model settings after installation.
    - 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.
- 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.
- 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.

Adding Microsoft™ SQL Server and MySQL drivers

Microsoft™ SQL Server and MySQL drivers are not supplied with Rational® Test Control Panel. If you want to use SQL Server or MySQL with Rational® Test Control Panel, you must copy the SQL Server or MySQL drivers to the Rational® Test Control Panel installation directory.

To add the database drivers:

Copy the drivers to the appropriate library location based on the product version that you are using.
- Version 8.5.0 and earlier: Copy to RTCP_installation_directory\webapps\RTCP\WEB-INF\lib
- Version 8.5.1 to 9.1.0: Copy to RTCP_installation_directory\usr\servers\defaultServer\apps\RTCP.war\WEB-INF\lib
- Version 9.1.0 and later: Copy to RTCP_installation_directory\usr\servers\defaultServer\apps\RTCP.war\WEB-INF\lib
Restart Rational® Test Control Panel.