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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.
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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.
  - Troubleshooting performance testing
    This topic provides information about how to troubleshoot several problems with Rational® Performance Tester.
  - Performance testing error messages
    Find more information about the error messages.
  - Additional error messages
    You can find the additional error messages.
    - Address already in use
      Address already in use.
    - Browser profile in use
      Your browser profile is already in use. You must close the browser or select another browser from Application to Record in Preferences.
    - Cannot open test
      Cannot open the test testname because it contains the following features that are not installed: featurename.
    - Connection closed
      Web server computername unexpectedly closed the connection while in the process of retrieving URI URIname
    - Dataset accessed using different modes
      Dataset datapoolname is accessed using different dataset modes by different tests.
    - Error binding to port
      Error Binding to Port:portnumber Exception: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Accept timed out.
    - No local agent controller
      Local computer is not running the Agent Controller.
    - Performance Test Errors were found in the project
      Performance Test Errors were found in the project.
    - Test run aborted
      Execution failure. No status received from location computername in interval seconds.
    - Test run aborted due to error
      Virtual users have exited prior to stage completion.
    - Testgen completed with warnings
      Testgen completed with warnings.
    - Variable not initialized
      Variable variablename has not been initialized for this test.
- 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.

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