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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.
Managing domains
How to create and manage domains in IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel.
Creating domains with Rational® Test Control Panel method
This topic explains how to create domains using the Rational® Test Control Panel method.

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 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.
      - Creating domains with Rational® Test Control Panel method
        This topic explains how to create domains using the Rational® Test Control Panel method.
        Task flow: Enabling domain-level security
        You can enable and manage domain-level security in IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel. You must perform certain tasks sequentially to enable and manage an end-to-end domain-level security scenario.
        Domain-level security
        Domain-level security designates the users who can access a particular domain. Domain-level security is turned off by default.
        Creating and assigning security tokens
        If you are an IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel system administrator and you want to implement domain-level security, you can create and assign security tokens to individual users.
        Configuring agents and proxies to use security tokens
        If you are an IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel system administrator and you want to implement domain-level security, you can assign security tokens to agents and proxies and thus filter which agents and proxies can connect to Rational Test Control Panel.
      - Creating domains with the Rational® Integration Tester method
        You can create domains by using the IBM® Rational® Integration Tester method.
      - Adding and removing domain privileges
        If domain-level security is enabled in IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel and you are a Rational Test Control Panel system or domain administrator, you can assign domain user, domain API user, or domain administrator privileges to other server users.
      - Modifying domains
        This topic explains how to modify domains.
      - Deleting domains
        This topic explains how to delete domains.
    - 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.

Creating domains with Rational® Test Control Panel method

This topic explains how to create domains using the Rational® Test Control Panel method.

About this task

To use Rational® Test Control Panel to create a domain:

Procedure

Log into Rational® Test Control Panel.
Click the Administration navigation link.
Alternatively, click the Administration icon on the Home page.

The Administration page is displayed.
Click the Domains and environments tab.
The Domains and environments tab is displayed.
In the New domain field, enter the name of the new domain.
Click Add.
The new domain is created.

The domain is added to the list of domains on the Domains and environments tab and a Details page is displayed on the tab to enable you to enter additional information about the new domain (if you want).

Clicking Environments displays the Environments page, which enables you to view a listing of the environments (if any) in the currently selected domain.

Note: You cannot use the Environments page to create an environment for a new domain or to associate an existing environment with a new domain because it is read-only. Instead, environments are created automatically when stubs are published from IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server or when an Rational® Integration Tester Proxy or Agent registers with Rational® Test Control Panel specifying an environment name.

Clicking Projects displays the Projects page, which enables you to view a listing of the Rational® Integration Tester projects (if any) where any stubs in the currently selected domain have been published.
Optional: In the Description field on the Details page, enter a description for the new domain.
Note: The contents of the Description field are viewable only within Rational® Test Control Panel. The contents of the field are not used by, or viewable in, Rational® Integration Tester.

Note: You can also specify a results database for the new domain. (For information about this, refer to Modifying Rational Test Virtualization Server project results database settings.)