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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.
Additional error messages
You can find the additional error messages.
No local agent controller
Local computer is not running the Agent Controller.

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.
- 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.
  - Troubleshooting performance testing
    This topic provides information about how to troubleshoot several problems with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester.
  - Performance testing error messages
    Find more information about the error messages.
  - Additional error messages
    You can find the additional error messages.
    - Address already in use
      Address already in use.
    - Browser profile in use
      Your browser profile is already in use. You must close the browser or select another browser from Application to Record in Preferences.
    - Cannot open test
      Cannot open the test testname because it contains the following features that are not installed: featurename.
    - Connection closed
      Web server computername unexpectedly closed the connection while in the process of retrieving URI URIname
    - Dataset accessed using different modes
      Dataset datapoolname is accessed using different dataset modes by different tests.
    - Error binding to port
      Error Binding to Port:portnumber Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Accept timed out.
    - No local agent controller
      Local computer is not running the Agent Controller.
    - Performance Test Errors were found in the project
      Performance Test Errors were found in the project.
    - Test run aborted
      Execution failure. No status received from location computername in interval seconds.
    - Test run aborted due to error
      Virtual users have exited prior to stage completion.
    - Testgen completed with warnings
      Testgen completed with warnings.
    - Variable not initialized
      Variable variablename has not been initialized for this test.
- 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.

No local agent controller

Local computer is not running the Agent Controller.

The agent controller coordinates schedule playback between the workbench and agent computers. The agent controller is not running on the local computer.

No tests run.

Make sure that the agent controller is installed and running on the workbench computer. On Windows™ computers, the agent controller is a process called ACWinService. On Linux™ computers, the agent controller is a process called RAServer.

To start the agent controller, do one of the following steps:

On Windows™, at a command prompt, enter this command:
```
net start "IBM Rational Agent Controller"
```
On Linux™, change to the directory AgentController/bin in the product installation directory; then enter this command:
```
./RAStart.sh
```