This installation guide covers two independent products: Rational Performance Tester and
the Rational Performance Tester Agent.
The Rational Performance Tester Agent
is a tool that you use with Rational Performance Tester.
It is included as part of the Rational Performance Tester product
kit.
Rational Performance Tester Agent
consists of two features:
- Load Generation Agent - This feature is used to generate load
for the application under test by using the virtual users. You can
increase load generation capacity by installing additional agents
on remote computers.
- Rational Agent Controller - This feature is used to gather data
for the Response Time Breakdown feature and in support of the startup
and control of web services stubs in the SOA protocol.
Note: The Rational Performance Tester workbench
and Agent products are separate offerings and must be installed separately.
If you have the Rational Performance Tester workbench
version 8.2.x.x currently installed, use the Update function
of IBM Installation Manager (using
the Rational Performance Tester 8.3
repository) to upgrade to the Rational Performance Tester workbench
version 8.3. See Important
rollback information later in this topic.
If you have Rational Performance Tester Agent
version 8.2.x.x installed, use the Update function
of Installation
Manager (using
the Rational Performance Tester Agent
8.3 repository) to install Rational Performance Tester Agent
version 8.3.
Important rollback information: To update from a version of one of the following
Rational Performance Tester releases
and maintain the ability to roll back to the earlier release, you
must complete the instructions that follow:
- 8.2
- 8.2.0.1
- 8.2.0.2
- 8.2.0.4
- 8.2.0.4
- 8.2.0.5
You
must update your product to
Rational Performance Tester version
8.2.0.6 before you update to 8.2.1. For technical reasons, you cannot
roll back version 8.2.1 directly to a version other than 8.2.0.6.
If you have updated to 8.2.0.6, and then update to 8.2.1, you can
then roll back to version 8.2.0.6 and to any of the listed versions
that are prior to 8.2.0.6.