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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Integration Tester. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
Configuration of Rational® Integration Tester
Configuring the project results database
Historical test data and performance results from agents and probes are stored in the Rational® Integration Tester project results database. It is difficult to estimate the space that is required as the number and type of tests to be run varies. For example, lengthy performance tests can generate large amounts of data. When you create the project results database, 50GB is probably a good starting point.
Upgrading the project results database schema
The following provides information about upgrading the schema version of an Rational® Integration Tester project results database, and illustrates the process with an example.

Rational® Integration Tester
- 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® Integration Tester.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Integration Tester.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install Rational® Integration Tester. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
  - Installation of Rational® Integration Tester
    You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Integration Tester from the IBM Rational Test Workbench or IBM Rational Integration Tester 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® Integration Tester
    - Installed directories
      When you install Rational® Integration Tester, the following directories are created and populated under the installation directory.
    - User file storage
      Rational® Integration Tester projects store user files, and can be created in any location to which a user has access. However, using a remote or network location can reduce Rational Integration Tester performance significantly, so it is recommended that Rational Integration Tester is installed on a local drive.
    - Changing the display language
      When you want to use the product in a different language other than the display language of your computer, then you can change the language of the product by using the command-line interface. You can find the information to change the language in Linux or Windows.
    - Configuring the project results database
      Historical test data and performance results from agents and probes are stored in the Rational® Integration Tester project results database. It is difficult to estimate the space that is required as the number and type of tests to be run varies. For example, lengthy performance tests can generate large amounts of data. When you create the project results database, 50GB is probably a good starting point.
      - Creating the project results database by using IBM® Db2®
        You can create project results databases that are based on IBM® Db2®.
      - Creating the project results database by using Oracle
        You can create a project results database that uses Oracle.
      - Creating the project results database by using Microsoft™ SQL Server
        You can create project results databases by using Microsoft™ SQL Server.
      - Creating the project results database by using MySQL
        You can create project results databases by using MySQL.
      - Upgrading the project results database schema
        The following provides information about upgrading the schema version of an Rational® Integration Tester project results database, and illustrates the process with an example.
    - HTTP/TCP proxy setup
      The process of configuring applications to use the HTTP/TCP proxy varies according to the application.
    - Setting up the JDBC proxy
      After you install the JDBC proxy, you must deploy the proxy into the Java™ virtual machine (JVM) of the relevant applications, set up the proxy for use, and verify that it is deployed.
    - Rational® Integration Tester tool packages
      To enable IBM® Rational® Integration Tester to work with certain technologies, you must configure the required libraries by using the Library Manager and also install and configure Rational Integration Tester tool packages that are provided with Rational Test Control Panel.
    - Working with Library Manager
      Rational® Integration Tester uses a plug-in architecture to provide support for various middleware and messaging technologies, so the list of third-party products with which it interacts can become large. You can manage this list by using Library Manager. When support for a new architecture or messaging plug-in is required, you use Library Manager to add that support.
    - Debugging failed Windows™ services
      If one of the programs fails to start as a Windows™ service, it can be difficult to determine the cause. Typically the service fails to start but gives no indication of why. The Windows Event log has nothing useful and the process might not have created its log file.
    - Rational® Integration Tester and Rational® Test Automation Server
      You can publish test reports for tests run on Rational® Integration Tester to Rational Test Automation Server. You can create secrets collections for your project and store them securely on Rational Test Automation Server that you can retrieve the secrets from Rational Test Automation Server during tests at runtime.
  - Administering IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Rational® Test Control Panel
    is a server-based web application providing a central repository for virtualized services. The Rational® Test Control Panel allows you to use virtual services published with Rational Integration Tester to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in IBM® Rational Test Virtualization Server.
  - Integrations
    Rational® Integration Tester supports integration with various other tools for quality management, change management, software configuration management, and deployment automation tools such as UrbanCode™ Deploy.
- 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.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for tracking the quality of the application. This guide is intended for Test Managers.
- Troubleshooting
  While working with Rational® Integration Tester, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot.
- Reference Guide
  This guide provides the topics to help the Integration tester use the product by using the user interface, commands or scripts. 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.

Upgrading the project results database schema

The following provides information about upgrading the schema version of an Rational® Integration Tester project results database, and illustrates the process with an example.

Note: Ensure that you have full backups of your project results database before you make changes.

Note: Scripts are not provided to downgrade databases, so a tested backup is essential.

Example

Scripts are provided and are required to upgrade the project results database schema, and they can be found in the Rational® Integration Tester Installation Directory\scripts.

The following example assumes that you are using Oracle for the project results database and that the current schema version is 22.

Run the following scripts in this order:

patch-1_9_22-1_9_23_oracle.sql
patch-1_9_23-1_9_24_oracle.sql
patch-1_9_24-1_9_24_a_oracle.sql
patch-1_9_24_a-1_9_24_c_oracle.sql
patch-1_9_24_c-1_9_24_d_oracle.sql
patch-1_9_24_d-1_9_24_e_oracle.sql
patch-1_9_24_e-1_9_24_f_oracle.sql

Compatibility with Rational® Integration Tester client versions

From GH Tester 5.2.11 onwards, unless otherwise stated in release notes, the previous release of Rational® Integration Tester will run on the next releases database schema.

You can upgrade your database schema without having to upgrade all clients simultaneously. After the database schema upgrade is complete, clients can be upgraded to the new release as required.

Note: For versions of GH Tester earlier than 5.2.11, Rational® Integration Tester client software and the database schema must be kept in step.

For example, if your GH Tester 5.2.11 uses database schema 1.9.24c, and you must upgrade to Rational® Integration Tester 8.0.0, the first step is to update the database schema to 1.9.24d. The schema update is required by 8.0.0.

Existing GH Tester 5.2.11 clients continue to operate normally against the updated database version. After the schema update is complete, individual client computers can be upgraded to 8.0.0.

Important: To know which versions of the project database are required for Rational® Integration Tester, see this technote.