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Rational® Performance Test Server
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.
TIBCO BusinessWorks probe
The TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) probe accesses the TIBCO Hawk microagents within BusinessWorks to collects execution statistics from running BusinessWorks processes.
BusinessWorks process flow
After the TIBCO BusinessWorks probe is configured, it collects data during performance tests.

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.
- 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.
- 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.
    - 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.
        Configuring the TIBCO BusinessWorks probe
        The TIBCO BusinessWorks probe runs on a TIBCO BusinessWorks TRA file that is configured in the Architecture School Physical View. The TRA file is associated when a BusinessWorks project is added to an IBM® Rational® Performance Test Server project.
        BusinessWorks process flow
        After the TIBCO BusinessWorks probe is configured, it collects data during performance tests.
      - 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.
      - Handling probe errors
  - 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.
- 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.

BusinessWorks process flow

After the TIBCO BusinessWorks probe is configured, it collects data during performance tests.

The counters are split among three different sections in the chart configuration tree.

The image shows a simple BusinessWorks process with five activities (including the End) which illustrate how the counters work.

BusinessWorks process flow

The counters are in the following branches of the chart configuration tree:

Business Works Process
Business Works Activities
Business Works Host

Process counters

Timings are available for the BusinessWorks processes executed during the test time span.

This image shows the Average Elapsed Time counter as selected. This group is ordered by hostname and then by process archive name.

BusinessWorks process counters

Activities counters

Timing information is available for each activity in the BusinessWorks process.

BusinessWorks activities counters

Note: The counters match the activities that are shown in the TIBCO Designer graphic of the process design.

Host counters

The number of running processes is shown for each host computer. The organization in the tree is ordered by BusinessWorks domain name, process archive name, domain name, Hawk domain, and hostname.

BusinessWorks Host counters