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Rational® Performance Tester
Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester. After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Integration with other products
You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
Integration with Engineering Test Management
You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with Rational Performance Tester to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
Starting and stopping the ETM adapter as a Windows service
You can use the Windows™ service to start, stop, and view adapter activities.

Rational® Performance Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about what's new, installation instructions, known issues in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester and contact information of IBM Customer Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Performance Tester.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the task flows to get you to start with Rational® Performance Tester. This guide is intended for new users.
- Tutorials
  This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of Rational® Performance Tester.
- Samples
  This section describes about the sample project which can be used with Rational® Performance Tester to test the functionality of an application.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install Rational® Performance Tester. After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
  - Installation of Rational® Performance Tester
    Installation of the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
  - License management
    Licensing for your installed IBM® software and customized packages is administered through the Manage Licenses wizard in the IBM Installation Manager. The Manage Licenses wizard displays license information for each installed package.
  - Product upgrade and migration
    When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of Rational® Performance Tester, you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
  - Configuration of the product
    You must configure Rational® Performance Tester when you want to run SAP tests, collect response time breakdown data, or use the product in the Docker container.
  - Integration with other products
    You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
    - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
      You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with Rational® Performance Tester.
    - Running tests by using Ant
      You can use Ant to run compound tests and performance tests from the command-line interface.
    - Integration with Azure DevOps
      When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in Rational® Performance Tester and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with Rational Performance Tester by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
    - Integration with Apache JMeter
      You can use JMeter tests extension with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to run JMeter tests.
    - EGit integration
      You can store your test assets in the remote Git repository and use EGit for version control operations. EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system.
    - Integration with Engineering Test Management
      You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with Rational Performance Tester to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
      - Configuring the Engineering Test Management adapter
        You must configure the Engineering Test Management adapter to establish a successful connection between Rational® Performance Tester and Engineering Test Management.
      - Configuring the workspace directory of the adapter
        You must configure the workspace directory of the adapter to start or stop the Engineering Test Management adapter either from command-line interface or as a Windows service.
      - Connecting and disconnecting the ETM adapter from the GUI mode
        You can use the Quality Manager Adapter view to connect, disconnect, and view adapter activities from Rational® Performance Tester.
      - Starting and stopping the ETM adapter from the command line
        You can use the command-line interface to start, stop, and view activities of the Engineering Test Management adapter that you configured in Rational® Performance Tester.
      - Starting and stopping the ETM adapter as a Windows service
        You can use the Windows™ service to start, stop, and view adapter activities.
      - Importing test assets
        You can import the performance and service tests into Engineering Test Management by using an adapter.
      - Testing shared assets
        You can make test projects and assets shareable in Engineering Test Management. By sharing assets, any computer with your product, that is connected to Engineering Test Management can execute a test or schedule.
    - Integration with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
      You can integrate Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) to create and track defects (bugs) or other work items, as a defect tracking tool in Rational Performance Tester.
    - Integration with Rational® Integration Tester
      You can use Rational® Integration Tester extension to run integration tests from Rational Performance Tester. You can either import the projects from Rational Integration Tester or manage them from Rational Performance Tester by establishing the connection between the products. You can also create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
    - Integration of Jaeger with the product
      Jaeger is software for tracing transactions between distributed services. You can use Jaeger to monitor and troubleshoot complex microservices environments.
    - Integration with Jenkins
      You can use the Rational® Performance Tester Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
    - Testing with Maven
      Starting from 9.2.0, you can use the Maven plug-in that is provided with the testing product to run tests as part of your Maven build. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM).
    - Integrating and running performance test scripts in Micro Focus ALM
      You can integrate Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) by using a readily available template from the installation directory of IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to run performance test scripts and obtain test result details.
- Test Author Guide
  This guide describes how to create test scripts in Rational® Performance Tester and enhances tests by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points. This guide is intended for testers.
- Test Execution Specialist Guide
  This guide describes tasks that you can perform on schedules, test execution with custom code, and Extending Rational® Performance Tester to support other protocols. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. This guide is intended for test managers.
- Troubleshooting Guide
  This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with Rational® Performance Tester.
- Reference Guide
  This guide describes, additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Performance Tester.
- All Guides (PDFs)
  You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of Rational® Performance Tester as a PDF file.
- 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 the product documentation.

Starting and stopping the Engineering Test Management adapter as a Windows™ service

You can use the Windows™ service to start, stop, and view adapter activities.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Configured the adapter in Rational® Performance Tester. See Configuring the Engineering Test Management adapter.
Installed Microsoft™ .NET Framework 3.5.x in Windows systems for the adapter service.
Configured the workspace directory of the adapter. See Configuring the workspace directory of the adapter.

About this task

When you install Rational® Performance Tester, you must install the adapter as a Windows™ service. The default status of Startup Type is set to Manual.

Performance Tester adapter as a Windows service

Optionally, to configure the service to start automatically, you can right-click the adapter listing, and then select Properties. You can then select Automatic from the drop-down list in the Startup Type field. Therefore, the adapter can start automatically when you restart your computer and does not require you to log in.

Notes:

When you start the adapter as a service, you cannot run the Web UI tests of IBM® Rational® Test Workbench from IBM® Engineering Test Management.
You must not open Rational® Performance Tester in the same workspace while the adapter is running as a Windows™ service. You must stop the adapter before you open Rational® Performance Tester in the configured workspace.

When you run the adapter as a service, the status of the adapter is printed to the adapter.log file that can be accessed from product_install_dir\RPT-RST_RQMAdapter\logs.

You can also print the current status of the adapter by navigating to the product_install_dir\RPT-RST_RQMAdapter\bin\ directory, and then run the RQMAdapter.bat STATUS command.

Procedure

Open the Windows™ services.
Perform the following step either to start or stop the adapter:
- Right-click IBM RTW-RPT-RST adapter for RQM and, then click Start to start the service.
  
  Note: The adapter is same for Rational® Test Workbench and Rational® Performance Tester.
- Right-click IBM RTW-RPT-RST adapter for RQM and, then click Stop to stop the service.

Results

You have started or stopped the Engineering Test Management adapter as a Windows service.