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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.
Reports and counters
After the tests or schedules are run and completed, you can view the results and open the reports to analyze the verdict, the performance, and statistics.
HTTP counters
HTTP counters, which are displayed in the Performance Test Runs view, enable you to customize your reports with dynamic information that is updated for each run.
Byte counters
These counters provide throughput information regarding the rate and the number of bytes sent and received during a sample interval and during a run.

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.
  - Evaluating results in web analytic reports
    After the test run, evaluate the results in the web analytic reports. Web analytics collect data using new technologies thereby providing better user experience.
  - Logs overview
    Rational® Performance Tester uses logs to store different types of information, which you can use to determine the reason for a test failure.
  - Reports and counters
    After the tests or schedules are run and completed, you can view the results and open the reports to analyze the verdict, the performance, and statistics.
    - Requirements report
      The Performance Requirements report is renamed to Requirements report. The Requirements report validates the performance and functional requirements that you set in a test or in a schedule.
    - Synchronization Point report
      This report provides information about the synchronization points in test runs and lets you manually release a user from a synchronization point. To release a user, right-click in the report and select Manage Synchronization Points.
    - Loops report
      This report summarizes the functionality of loops in a test.
    - Agents Health Report
      With the Agents Health Report, you can view the usage data of CPU, Memory, Threads, and JVM Heap for the agent machines involved in the run. The report shows usage data for the Agent Host and Agent Process on the agent machines. By default, the Enable Agent Health Report check box at Window > Preferences > Test > Test Execution is selected. Also, by default, the report opens in the Compare mode. You cannot disable the compare mode.
    - Rate Runner report
      You can use the Rate Runner report to view how all the Rate Runner groups in the Rate Schedule have performed during the run.
    - Transaction report
      This report summarizes the success of transactions in the run, plots on a graph the response trend of each transaction during a specific sample interval, and shows the transaction throughput.
    - Transaction Percentile report
      This report shows the 85th, 90th, and 95th percentile elapsed times for all users, the union of all transactions in a run, and for the 10 slowest transactions in a run.
    - Transaction Net Server Time Percentile report
      This report shows the 85th, 90th, and 95th percentile net server times for all users and the union of all transactions in a run. The report also shows the 10 slowest transactions in a run. The net server time corresponds to the cumulative server response times within a transaction. Net server time does not include think times and delays, which are included in the elapsed time.
    - Rate Generator report
      Use this report to determine if the transactions run at the rate that you specify.
    - HTTP performance test reports
      When you test an HTTP system, reports are produced during a run and saved after a run. You can then analyze the reports to know the performance of the system under test.
    - SAP performance test reports
      When you test an SAP application, these performance test reports are produced during a run and saved after a run.
    - Citrix performance test reports
      When you test a Citrix XenApp application, these reports are produced during a run and saved after a run.
    - Web service performance test reports
      When you test a web service, these reports are produced during a run and saved after a run.
    - Socket performance test reports
      When you test a socket application, these performance test reports are produced during a run and saved after a run.
    - HTTP counters
      HTTP counters, which are displayed in the Performance Test Runs view, enable you to customize your reports with dynamic information that is updated for each run.
      - Byte counters
        These counters provide throughput information regarding the rate and the number of bytes sent and received during a sample interval and during a run.
      - Page counters
        These counters provide information about page attempts, page hits, response time, response success, and verification points. Some counters produce an aggregate value, where the values for several pages are rolled up into one value; others produce values for each page.
      - Run counters
        These counters provide information about the active users in the run, the users that have completed the run, and the HTTP status codes that were received.
      - Test counters
        These counters provide information about the execution time of the tests in a run. Some counters produce an aggregate value, where the values for all tests are rolled up into one value; others produce individual values for each test.
      - Transaction counters
        These counters provide information about transactions that were attempted, transactions that were completed, and the elapsed time for the transactions. Some counters produce an aggregate value, where the values for all transactions are rolled up into one value; others produce individual values for each transaction.
    - SAP counters
      SAP generic counters, which are displayed in the Performance Test Runs view, enable you to customize your SAP reports with dynamic information that is updated for each run.
    - Citrix counters
      Citrix generic counters, which are displayed in the Performance Test Runs view, enable you to customize your Citrix reports with dynamic information that is updated for each run.
    - Service counters
      Service counters, which are displayed in the Test Runs view, enable you to customize your service test reports with dynamic information that is updated for each run.
    - Socket counters
      With socket generic counters, which are displayed in the Performance Test Runs view, you can customize your socket reports with dynamic information that is updated for each run.
- 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.

Byte counters

These counters provide throughput information regarding the rate and the number of bytes sent and received during a sample interval and during a run.

The counters in the following tables provide an aggregate value for all tests. Folders that contain aggregate counters have a clock superimposed on them: folder icon with a clock superimposed .

Run> Throughput
Counter name	Description
Bytes Received [for Run]	The total number of bytes received for all tests for the entire run
Bytes Sent [for Run]	The total number of bytes sent for all tests for the entire run

Run> Throughput> Bytes Received
Counter name	Description
Count [for Interval]	The total number of bytes received for all tests within the most recent sample interval
Rate [per second] [for Interval]	The bytes per second received for all tests within the most recent sample interval
Rate [per second] [for Run]	The bytes per second received for all tests for the entire run

Run> Throughput> Bytes Sent
Counter name	Description
Count [for Interval]	The total number of bytes sent for all tests within the most recent sample interval
Rate [per second] [for Interval]	The bytes per second sent for all tests within the most recent sample interval
Rate [per second] [for Run]	The bytes per second sent for all tests for the entire run