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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.
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.

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.

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.

About this task

To configure the default probe or add another probe, edit the TRA file and click the Probes tab.

Procedure

Open the TRA file and click the Probes tab.
Choose any of the following options.
- To add a new probe, click Add > TIBCO BusinessWorks.
- To copy an existing probe, select the probe and click Copy.
- To delete a probe, select the probe and click Remove.
- To configure an existing probe, select it and modify its settings in the configuration panel on the right.
- For probes other than the default one, you can enter a name in the Name field. Set the interval (in seconds) at which statistics are to be collected in the Collect statistics every ... field.
- To select or change the agent that hosts the selected probe, click Browse next to the Hosting agent field and select the agent from the project resource tree.
- To clear the current selection, click Clear.
- You can modify the default Hawk connection settings by clicking Edit next to the current connection description.
- Configure the settings to specify the Hawk connection transport and BusinessWorks domain, and click OK when finished.
- Click Discover to search for active BusinessWorks processes that are using the specified Hawk transport. Click Stop to terminate the search early.
- Expand the hosts to show their associated BW processes.
- Select the Collect check boxes to select the processes. Screen tips show the last time that this BusinessWorks engine was recorded as active within this Rational® Performance Test Server project.
- Select or clear the box for the hostname to turn on or off all processes.
- Right-click an entry to delete it from the configuration.
- The frequency of data collection is set in the Collection interval field. Click Finish to complete the configuration and quit the dialog.