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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 Jenkins
You can use the Rational® Performance Tester Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
Environment variables for Jenkins
You can add environment variables on the Jenkins server to run the Jenkins build by referring to environment variables.

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 started 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
      When you want to automate repetitive tasks, you can run performance test assets from the command-line interface by using Ant.
    - 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.
    - 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.
    - 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 IBM® 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 with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy
      You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy to run performance test assets as a Process from UrbanCode Deploy.
    - 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.
      - Environment variables for Jenkins
        You can add environment variables on the Jenkins server to run the Jenkins build by referring to environment variables.
      - Build parameters for Jenkins
        You can define the build parameters when you configure either Freestyle or Pipeline projects. When you use the build parameters, Jenkins prompts you to enter a value for the defined parameter when you run the Jenkins job. Each parameter has a name and value.
      - Task flows for running test assets from Jenkins
        You can perform certain tasks to run test assets from the Jenkins Freestyle project or the Pipeline project.
      - Installing the plugin on the Jenkins primary server
        You must install the Rational® Performance Tester Jenkins plugin to run performance test assets from the Jenkins server.
      - Configuring the Freestyle project
        You must configure a Freestyle project to add a build step, and then run test assets from Jenkins.
      - Creating a pipeline script from Jenkins
        You must create a pipeline script to run test assets from the Jenkins Pipeline project.
      - Configuring the Pipeline project by using the sample script
        You can configure a Pipeline project directly from the Jenkins UI by using the sample pipeline scripts to run test assets from Jenkins.
      - Configuring the Pipeline project by using the script from SCM
        You can configure the Pipeline project to use the pipeline script from the Source Code Management (SCM), and then run test assets from the Jenkins Pipeline project.
      - Running tests from Jenkins
        You can run test assets either from the Jenkins Freestyle or the Pipeline project on the Jenkins server to test an application under test.
    - 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).
    - Integration with Micro Focus ALM
      You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run performance test assets from Micro Focus ALM.
- 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.

Environment variables for Jenkins

You can add environment variables on the Jenkins server to run the Jenkins build by referring to environment variables.

You can add an environment variable on the Jenkins server by navigating to Manage Jenkins > Configure System > Global properties. You can enter the variable name by using any of the following methods for the corresponding text fields in the Run IBM Rational Performance Tester test step:

Use the dollar sign ($) followed by the variable name.

For example, $workspace
Use the dollar sign ($) followed by the variable name between braces.

For example, ${workspace}

The Rational® Performance Tester Jenkins plugin uses the actual value while running the job.

For example, if you add the environment variable named workspace with the value C:\Users\IBM\workspace1, then you can use $workspace or ${workspace} as input to the Workspace field when running tests. During the run time, $workspace or ${workspace} is substituted with its corresponding value C:\Users\IBM\workspace1.