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Reference Guide
This guide describes, additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Performance Tester.
UI preferences
Read the UI preferences topics.
Citrix monitoring panel reference
The Citrix monitoring panel is an optional panel that displays detailed information and control commands for each virtual user during the run of a schedule. When enabled, the Citrix monitoring panel is available during the run of a schedule.

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.
- 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.
  - Rational® Integration Tester accessibility features
    Users who have a physical disability, such as limited vision, can review the available accessibility features to use Rational® Integration Tester.
  - General reference for performance testing
    See these performance testing topics for general reference.
  - UI preferences
    Read the UI preferences topics.
    - HTTP preferences
      You can change the product behavior by changing these HTTP-related settings.
    - SAP test preferences
      You can change the product behavior by changing these SAP-related settings.
    - Citrix recorder preferences
      Citrix recorder preferences control the behavior of the recording wizard.
    - Socket Test Generation preferences
      With the socket test generation preferences, you can change how the test recorder generates new socket tests.
    - Citrix monitoring panel reference
      The Citrix monitoring panel is an optional panel that displays detailed information and control commands for each virtual user during the run of a schedule. When enabled, the Citrix monitoring panel is available during the run of a schedule.
    - Proxy recording preferences
      Use these preferences to specify a list of endpoints to ignore when recording a test with the proxy recorder.
    - Test editor preferences
      The General preferences control what happens when you move test elements, and how digital certificates are substituted. The Colors and Fonts preferences control how the editor displays dataset and correlation data. The Search and Replace preferences control the behavior of search and replace.
    - Report preferences
      Report preference settings apply to all protocols.
    - Test editor references
      To understand the relevance of different UI fields in the test editor of various test extensions, read these topics.
    - VU Schedule editor reference
      Most VU Schedule editor settings apply either to the entire schedule or to individual user groups.
  - WSDL security editor reference
    With the Web Service Description Language (WSDL) security editor you can create and edit security configurations for a WSDL file.
- 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.

Citrix monitoring panel reference

The Citrix monitoring panel is an optional panel that displays detailed information and control commands for each virtual user during the run of a schedule. When enabled, the Citrix monitoring panel is available during the run of a schedule.

Monitoring Panel

This panel displays information about the execution of each virtual user.

Pool Name

Displays the name of the virtual user pool. There is one pool per location and user group.

Active Virtual Users

Displays the number of virtual users currently active. This value is updated permanently during the run.

User Action Rate

Displays the number of Citrix user key or mouse actions that were simulated during the last 5 second interval.

Total Elapsed Time

Displays the total time elapsed since the start of the schedule run.

Current® Action

Displays the last user action executed in the test.

Timeouts

Displays the number of synchronization timeouts for the virtual user. The color represents the status of the timeout:

Green: ok.
Yellow: a timeout occurred on a conditional synchronization.
Red: a timeout occurred on a mandatory synchronization.

Elapsed Time

Displays the time elapsed since the start of the virtual user run.

Status

Displays the execution status of the virtual user.

Go To: Click to display the Citrix session of the selected virtual user.
Pause or Play: Click to pause or resume the execution of the selected virtual user. You can also pause the execution by setting breakpoints in the test.
Step: When the test is on pause, click to execute each user input action in the test, step by step. To pause test execution, you can either click the Pause button or set breakpoints in the test. Click Play to resume the test.
Interact: When the test is on pause, click to allow manual actions in the virtual user session. Use this feature if a test fails to synchronize or gets stuck in an unexpected state. To pause test execution, you can either click the Pause button or set breakpoints in the test. Click Play again to resume the test execution at the point where it was paused.
Stop: Click to stop the execution of the selected virtual user. When all virtual users are stopped, the schedule ends.