Installing Rational Performance Tester Agent

Use these instructions to install Rational® Performance Tester Agent.

About this task

By starting the installation process from the launchpad program, IBM® Installation Manager is automatically installed if it is not already on your computer, and it starts preconfigured with the location of the repository that contains the product package. If you install and start Installation Manager directly, then you must set repository preferences manually.

To learn how to install the product from a command prompt in silent mode, see the Installing Silently section of the IBM Installation Manager Information Center.

Important: Installation notes for the Windows Vista operating system:
  • You must run the launchpad programs as administrator. If the launchpad program starts automatically (for example, if you are installing from a CD), stop the launchpad program, and restart it by using the Run as administrator option. (At the root level of the CD or disk image, right-click launchpad.exe, and click Run as Administrator.)
  • Do not install the products into the Program Files directory (C:\Program Files). If you select either an installation location or a shared resources directory in the Program Files directory, the packages that you install must be run as administrator.

Procedure

  1. Review the Installation considerations, if you have not done so already.
  2. If you are installing from compressed files, such as .zip or ISO files, extract the files into a common directory. Extract the disk image to a directory that is named RPTAGENT_SETUP.
  3. If you are installing from a CD, insert the first product disc into your CD drive. If autorun is enabled on your workstation, then the launchpad starts automatically. Otherwise, start the launchpad program manually.
    • For Windows. Run the launchpad.exe command, which is located in the root directory of the Setup disk installation image.
    • For Linux. Run the launchpad.sh command, which is located in the root directory of the Setup disk installation image.
  4. Optional: Select a language in which to run the launchpad and Installation Manager.
  5. Select Install IBM Rational Performance Tester Agent from the launchpad menu. The Install Packages window opens.
  6. Click a product package to highlight it. The description of the package is displayed in the Details pane at the bottom of the screen.
  7. To search for updates to the product packages, click Check for Other Versions, Fixes, and Extensions. If updates for a product package are found, then they are displayed in the Installation Packages list on the Install Packages page below their corresponding product. Only recommended updates are displayed by default.
    • To view all updates that are found for the available packages, click Show all versions.
    • To display a package description under Details, click the package name. If additional information about the package is available, such as a readme file or release notes, a More info link is included at the end of the description text. Click the link to display the additional information in a browser. To fully understand the package you are installing, review all information.
      Note: For Installation Manager to search the predefined IBM update repository locations for the installed packages, the Search the linked repositories during installation and updates preference on the Repositories preference page must be selected. This preference is selected by default. Internet access is also required. A progress indicator shows that the search is taking place. You can install updates at the same time that you install the base product package.
  8. Select the product package and updates to the package to install. Updates that have dependencies are automatically selected and cleared together. Click Next to continue.
    Note: If you install multiple packages at the same time, then all the packages are installed into the same package group.
  9. On the Licenses page, read the license agreement for the selected package. If you selected more than one package to install, there might be a license agreement for each package. On the left side of the License page, click each package version to display its license agreement. The package versions that you selected to install (for example, the base package and an update) are listed under the package name.
    1. If you agree to the terms of all of the license agreements, click I accept the terms of the license agreements.
    2. Click Next to continue.
  10. On the Location page, type the path for the shared resources directory in the Shared Resources Directory field, or accept the default path. The shared resources directory contains resources that can be shared by one or more package groups. Click Next to continue.
    The default path to use follows:
    • For Windows. C:\Program Files\IBM\IBMIMShared
    • For Linux. /opt/IBM/IBMIMShared
    Important: You can specify the shared resources directory only the first time that you install a package. Use your largest disk for this directory to help ensure adequate space for the shared resources of future packages. You cannot change the directory location unless you uninstall all packages.
  11. On the Location page, create a package group to install the product package into or if this is an update, use the existing package group. A package group represents a directory in which packages share resources with other packages in the same group. To create a package group:
    1. Click Create a new package group.
    2. Type the path for the installation directory for the package group. The name for the package group is created automatically.
      The default path follows:
      • For Windows. C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP
      • For Linux. /opt/IBM/SDP
    3. Click Next to continue.
    If the Architecture Selection option is available, you can select 32-bit or 64-bit. Install the 64-bit version of the agent controller only if you plan to collect data from 64-bit application servers when you use Rational Application Performance Analyzer. Other uses of the 64-bit version of the agent controller are not supported.
  12. On the next Location page, you can choose to extend an existing Eclipse IDE that is installed on your computer, adding the functions in the packages that you are installing. You must have Eclipse Version 3.6 with the latest updates from eclipse.org to select this option.
    • If you do not want to extend an existing Eclipse IDE, click Next to continue.
    • To extend an existing Eclipse IDE:
      1. Select Extend an existing Eclipse.
      2. In the Eclipse IDE field, type or navigate to the location of the folder that contains the eclipse executable file (eclipse.exe or eclipse.bin). Installation Manager checks whether the Eclipse IDE version is valid for the package that you are installing. The Eclipse JVM field displays the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for the IDE that you specified.
      3. Click Next to continue.
  13. On the Features page under Translations, select the languages for the package group. The corresponding translations for the user interface and documentation for the product package will be installed.
  14. On the next Features page, select the package features to install.
    1. Optional: To see the dependency relationships between features, select Show Dependencies.
    2. Optional: Click a feature to view its brief description under Details.
    3. Select or clear features in the packages. Installation Manager automatically enforces any dependencies with other features and displays updated download sizes and disk space requirements for the installation.
    4. When you are finished selecting features, click Next to continue.
  15. On the next Features page, configure the agent controller. Select either a Typical installation or a Custom installation. If you select Custom installation, you can define an access list and enable security:
    1. Optional: Specify an Access List. You can limit access to the computer where the agent controller is installed or to a list of specific computers.
    2. Optional: Configure Security. You can enable encrypted communication and limit access to a specified set of user IDs.
  16. On the Summary page, review your choices before installing the product package. To change the choices that you made on previous pages, click Back, and make your changes. When you are satisfied with your installation choices, click Install to install the package. A progress indicator shows the percentage of the installation that is completed.
  17. When the installation process is complete, a message confirms the completion of the process.
    1. Click View log file to open the installation log file for the current session in a new window. You must close the Installation Log window to continue.
    2. Click Finish to start the selected package. The Install Package wizard closes and you are returned to the launchpad program.
  18. To collect data on a system-under-test, you must follow these steps to enable the test server for data collection:
    1. From the Start menu, select IBM Data Collection Infrastructure > Application Server Instrumenter to open the instrumentation application.
    2. Click Instrument Local Server, and select the type of application server that you have running on the server.
    3. Specify the server type fields, including the location of the server if required, and click OK.
    4. Stop and start the server for the instrumentation to take effect.
    Note: All IBM Rational Performance Tester systems that are involved with the data collection infrastructure must have the data collection software running for the transaction breakdown function to be available within the results of a Rational Performance Tester test schedule.
    Note: The application server instrumenter or the instrumentServer.bat (or instrumentServer.sh) batch file can fail with a generic error message (Error during install/uninstall) when instrumenting or uninstrumenting a server. If this occurs, you can find more information to help troubleshoot the error in the log files in the IBM Tivoli® common directory. On Windows, the default location of this directory is C:\Program Files\IBM\tivoli\common. On Linux, the default location of this directory is /var/ibm/tivoli/common. If the IBM Tivoli common directory is not in the default location, search for a path that contains tivoli/common, or for any of these log files: trace-install.log, trace-ma.log, or trace-tapmagent.log.
    Note: For IBM WebSphere® Application Server 6.0 or later, if you create a new profile and then use the application server instrumenter to instrument this profile without first starting WebSphere Application Server, the application server instrumenter reports that the server is instrumented and will request that you restart the server manually. This message is incorrect; the server is not actually instrumented. To work around this problem:
    1. Close and then restart the application server instrumenter.
    2. Select the entry that you just added from the list of instrumented servers, and click Remove.
    3. Restart WebSphere Application Server.
    4. Restart the application server instrumenter, and use it to instrument the server.
    To avoid this problem, after creating a new profile, start the WebSphere Application Server profile manually. Then, use the application server instrumenter to instrument the server.

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