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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.
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.

Rational® Performance Test 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® Performance Test Server or IBM Rational Integration Tester Agent.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with IBM® Rational® Performance Test 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
    You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Integration Tester Agent from the IBM Rational Performance Test Server 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.
  - Configuration of Rational® Performance Test Server
  - Licenses for Rational® Performance Test Server
    You can find information about the licenses that you can purchase to use Rational® Performance Test Server.
  - 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.
  - Running agents
    The Rational® Integration Tester Agent is normally configured to run continuously, listening for HTTP connections from the Performance Test Controller.
- 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.
- 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.

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.

Before upgrading

Before you upgrade Rational® Integration Tester Agent, you must stop the service. For information about stopping the service, see Running agents.

Note: You cannot directly upgrade Rational® Integration Tester Agent from any of the earlier versions to the latest version. You must uninstall the existing version and then install the latest version.

Preserving the configuration file

Upgrading the Rational® Integration Tester Agent software or uninstalling an older version to move to a newer version (when the upgrade is not applicable) overwrites the existing Agent.config file. If there are settings in the Agent.config file that must be preserved, for example, IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel domains and environments settings, copy the existing Agent.config file to a temporary location before upgrading. After the upgrade or uninstallation of the software has completed, overwrite the new Agent.config file with the old Agent.config file.

Upgrading the agent

For upgrade instructions, see Upgrading the software