Installing Rational Performance Tester and Rational Performance Tester Agent

Installing and updating the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. IBM® Rational® Performance Tester and IBM Rational Performance Tester Agent.
Note: Before installing, consult the IBM Rational Performance Tester Release Notes for late-breaking installation issues.

Product Overview

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.

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