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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 Apache JMeter
You can use JMeter tests extension with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to run JMeter tests.

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.
      - Importing a JMeter test to a project
        You can import your JMeter tests to IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to run them as part of VU schedule.
      - Adding a JMeter test to an existing VU schedule
        You can add a JMeter test to an existing VU schedule to test the performance of both static and dynamic resources and web applications.
      - Converting JMeter tests to VU schedule
        You can convert a JMeter test to a VU schedule to load and test the performance of an application under test.
      - JMeter Performance report
        The JMeter performance report summarizes the validity of the run, shows the average sample response time for the requests in the test, and graphs the sample response time of each sample for a specified interval.
    - 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.
    - 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.

Integration with Apache JMeter

You can use JMeter tests extension with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to run JMeter tests.

In Rational® Performance Tester, you have the option to import JMeter tests, add tests to a schedule or compound test to run them. Additionally, JMeter test helps to simulate a heavy load on a server, group of servers, or to investigate overall sample response time under different load types.

JMeter samples are terminal elements in JMeter tests that inform JMeter to send requests to a server and wait for a response. When you run a JMeter test, a JMeter performance report is generated during a run and saved after a run. This report contains the data most significant to the run, shows the response trend of the lowest 25 samples in the test, and graphs the response trend of each sample for a specified interval.

With JMeter test, you can load and test the performance of an application that uses the following protocols:

HTTP/HTTPS
SOAP/REST
FTP
LDAP
MOM
SMTP/POP3/IMAP
TCP

JMeter installtion

To work with JMeter tests, you must download the JMeter executable from https://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi and unzip it. To run the JMeter test as part of schedule, you must install JMeter on the remote agent machine and set the JMETER_HOME environment variable to the root installation folder. To run the JMeter tests, you must either specify the Apache JMeter path in the product Preferences or set the environment variable.

Note: When you run the compound test or schedule, an error message is displayed, if you have not specified the preferences or set the environment variable.

You can click Window > Preferences > Test > Apache JMeter to access the preference settings for Apache JMeter and point it to the apache-jmeter-x.0 directory.

Where, x is the version number of the JMeter executable.

You can set the environment variable JMETER_HOME and point it to the apache-jmeter-x.0 directory.