Enablement of Resource Monitoring services for a schedule

You can enable the Resource Monitoring service in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester for a performance schedule to monitor the resources in a schedule and capture the performance statistics of such resources during the run time of the schedule.

When you connect Rational Performance Tester to Rational Test Automation Server, the Resource Monitoring sources that you added at project level in Rational Test Automation Server are displayed in Rational Performance Tester.

You can configure Rational Performance Tester to access Rational Test Automation Server by using an offline user token. You must generate the offline user token from Rational Test Automation Server that you can provide on the product Preferences window in Rational Performance Tester so that a connection is established between Rational Performance Tester and Rational Test Automation Server.

After you establish the connection with Rational Test Automation Server, you can then monitor the following Resource Monitoring sources in Rational Performance Tester:
  • Apache httpd server
  • NGINX server
  • Java Virtual Machine
  • Windows Performance Host
  • Linux Performance Host
  • Docker Host
  • OpenMetrics exporter
  • Prometheus server
If you enable the Resource Monitoring service for a schedule, then you can add the Resource Monitoring sources by using any of the following methods:
  • Resource Monitoring sources that are displayed by names
  • Resource Monitoring sources that are displayed by labels

After you add the Resource Monitoring sources to the performance schedule that is available in your Rational Performance Tester project, you can run the schedule from Rational Performance Tester.

If you want to run a performance schedule from the Rational Performance Tester command line, you can use the -overridermlabels parameter to enable the Resource Monitoring service. See Running a schedule from a command line.