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Rational® Integration Tester
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.
Tester Guide - Performance Testing
Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
Deploying probes
A Rational® Integration Tester probe measures variables from a particular component in the system and reports back its findings for processing and storage.
webMethods Integration Server probe
The webMethods Integration Server probe collects statistics for the server and for specific webMethods services.

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.
- 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.
  - Tester Guide - Integration Testing
    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. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
  - Tester Guide - Performance Testing
    Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
    - Creating and running performance tests
      This topic describes how to create, configure, and run performance tests.
    - View test results
      This topic describes how to work with IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server charts in the Results Gallery perspective.
    - Deploying probes
      A Rational® Integration Tester probe measures variables from a particular component in the system and reports back its findings for processing and storage.
      - System statistics probe
        The System Statistics (Systat) probe runs on Windows™ or Linux™ and captures key system statistics for the target host.
      - Windows™ performance monitor probe
        The Windows™ Performance Monitor probe captures the same statistics for the target host as those available through the Performance Monitor (perfmon.msc) on Windows systems.
      - TIBCO BusinessWorks probe
        The TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) probe accesses the TIBCO Hawk microagents within BusinessWorks to collects execution statistics from running BusinessWorks processes.
      - TIBCO Rendezvous probe
        The TIBCO Rendezvous (RV) probe captures Rendezvous daemon (RVD) status messages that contain messaging and error rates.
      - TIBCO Rendezvous distributed queues probe
        The TIBCO Rendezvous Distributed Queues (RVDQ) probe uses Rendezvous daemon (RVD) transports to collect RV Distributed Queue statistics.
      - TIBCO Rendezvous trace probe
        The TIBCO Rendezvous Trace (RVTRACE) probe uses the TIBCO program rvtrace to monitor networks and capture Rendezvous daemon (RVD) subject statistics.
      - TIBCO EMS probe
      - webMethods Broker probe
        The webMethods Broker probe collects statistics for webMethods brokers, event types, clients, and client groups.
      - webMethods Integration Server probe
        The webMethods Integration Server probe collects statistics for the server and for specific webMethods services.
        Configuring the webMethods Integration Server probe
        How to configure the webMethods Integration Server probe.
      - Handling probe errors
  - Tester Guide - Service Virtualization
    This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for using virtual services or stubs to simulate parts of an environment if the real services are not yet available or because they are difficult or expensive to use. This guide is intended for Integration Testers.
- 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.

webMethods Integration Server probe

The webMethods Integration Server probe collects statistics for the server and for specific webMethods services.

The following table describes the integration server statistics that can be monitored by the webMethods Integration Server probe.


Counter	Description
Current® System Threads	The current number of system threads.
Peak System Threads	The peak number of system threads.
Current® Service Threads	The current number of service threads.
Peak Service Threads	The peak number of service threads.
Current® Total Sessions	The current number of open sessions.
Peak Total Sessions	The peak number of open sessions.
Current® Licensed Sessions	The current number of open licensed sessions.
Peak Licensed Sessions	The peak number of open licensed sessions.
Completed Requests	The total number of completed server requests.
Average Request Time	The current average server request time.
Total Average Request Time	The total average server request time.
Service Error Count	The number of service errors registered.
Started Requests per Minute	The number of started requests per minute.
Completed Requests per Minute	The number of completed requests per minute.
Total JVM Memory	The total amount of memory available to the IS JVM.
Used JVM Memory	The current amount of memory used by the IS JVM.
Free JVM Memory	The amount of available memory unused by the JVM.
Server Uptime	The number of seconds this server has been running.
Total Service Invocation Count	The total number of service invocations.
Total Cached Services	The number of services that have been cached.
Total Prefetched Services	The number of services that have been prefetched.

The following table describes the services data that can be monitored by the webMethods Integration Server probe.


Counter	Description
Invocation Count	The number of times the service has been invoked.