IBM Rational Performance Tester Interim Fix 001 - Readme

For Rational Performance Tester, Version 6.1.1

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Table of contents

1.0 About this release
2.0 Installation information
   2.1 Hardware requirements
   2.2 Software requirements
   2.3 Installing the ifix
   2.4 Local installations
   2.5 Creating a local mirror of the update server
   2.5.1 Downloading and extracting updates
   2.5.2 Creating and updating site.xml files
   2.5.3 Creating a policy.xml file
   2.5.4 Installing updates from the local mirror of the update server
   2.6 Uninstalling the ifix
3.0 Fixes in this release
4.0 Contacting customer support
5.0 Notices and trademarks

1.0 About this release

This interim fix addresses the problems described in section 3.

2.0 Installation information

This section describes how to install IBM® Rational® Performance Tester 6.1.1 IFix001. This ifix is provided as an update. You should download this ifix directly from the IBM update server. However, you can also download a ZIP file that contains this ifix for local installations. The following sections describe how to install this ifix.

2.1 Hardware requirements

There are no additional hardware requirements for installing this interim fix.

2.2 Software requirements

This interim fix can be installed for use with IBM Rational Performance Tester, Version 6.1.1.

Also, if you disabled any product features through the Update Manager by clicking Help > Software Updates > Manage Configuration, or by modifying feature.xml files, you must re-enable them before you install this ifix.

2.3 Installing the ifix

Install the ifix with the same user account that installed IBM Rational Performance Tester.

Restrictions:

To install the ifix, complete the following steps:

  1. Start the Rational Product Updater:
    Note: On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0, if you use a desktop environment other than the default, the product shortcuts might not appear in the default location.

  2. Click Find Updates.

    If the Rational Product Updater requires an update, you are prompted to install it before you can continue. Click OK. The Rational Product Updater installs the update and retrieves a list of available updates.

  3. Interim Fix 001 is listed under IBM Rational Performance Tester 6.1.1. It will both be checked by default.

  4. Click Install Updates.
  5. To accept the license agreement and continue the installation, click OK.

    Depending on the speed of your computer processor, the amount of RAM, and the speed of your Internet connection, the update might take an extended period of time to download and install.

    After the installation is complete, the Rational Product Updater lists the installed updates on the Installed Products page.

  6. Close the Rational Product Updater.
    Note: An active Linux or z/OS Rational Agent Controller process will not be updated. The Linux or z/OS RAC must be restarted to ensure the updates are available.

2.4 Local installations

You should install the ifix directly from the IBM update server; however, it is also available for download. You might want to download and install the ifix in the following situations:

To download and install the ifix, complete the following steps:

  1. Download the ifix from ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/rationalsdp/rpt/61/zips/rpt611_ifix001.zip.
  2. Extract the ifix to a temporary directory, such as C:\temp.
  3. Follow the installation instructions below.

Install the ifix with the same user account that installed IBM Rational Performance Tester.

Restrictions:

To install the ifix, complete the following steps:

  1. Start the Rational Product Updater:
    Note: On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0, if you use a desktop environment other than the default, the product shortcuts might not appear in the default location.

  2. Click Preferences > Update Sites.
  3. Navigate to temp_dir\rpt\policy_611.xml, where temp_dir is the location of the extracted ifix. If a temp_dir location other than C:\temp was chosen, the policy_611.xml file must first be edited to contain the correct absolute path name of the site.xml file based on the selected value for temp_dir.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Click Find Updates.

    If your computer does not have Internet access, or cannot connect to the live IBM update server, a warning appears in the Rational Product Updater that states that other update sites are not available. You can ignore this warning if you installed IBM Rational Product Updater 6.0.1.

    If your computer has Internet access and can connect to the live IBM update server, and if the Rational Product Updater requires an update, you are prompted to install it before you can continue. Click OK. The Rational Product Updater installs the update, restarts, and retrieves a list of available updates.

  6. Select IBM Rational Performance Tester 6.1.1 Interim Fix 001.

  7. Click Install Updates.
  8. To accept the license agreement and continue the installation, click OK.

    Depending on the speed of your computer processor and the amount of RAM in your computer, the update might take an extended period of time to install.

    After the installation is complete, the Rational Product Updater lists the installed updates on the Installed Products page.

  9. Close the Rational Product Updater.
    Note: An active Linux or z/OS Rational Agent Controller process will not be updated. The Linux or z/OS RAC must be restarted to ensure the updates are available.

2.5 Creating a local mirror of the update server

2.5.1 Downloading and extracting updates

To create a local mirror of the IBM Rational Performance Tester update server, download the updates in the following table:
Rational Performance Tester update FTP location
IBM Rational Performance Tester 6.1.1 IFix001 ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/rationalsdp/rpt/61/zips/rpt611_ifix001.zip

After you download the updates, extract the files to a target directory that will stage your local mirror of the update server.

Attention:

Note: You can extract all the updates to the same target directory. The updates do not overwrite each other.

2.5.2 Creating and updating site.xml files

Generally, an update site and a discovery site exist for each product. The update site contains product fixes, such as interim fixes and fix packs, and the discovery site contains optional features.

Note: There is no discovery site for the Rational Product Updater or Rational Performance Tester 6.1.1.

Each downloaded product fix contains a site_identifier.xml file in the product\61\update\ directory, and each downloaded feature contains a site_identifier.xml file in the product\611\discovery\ directory, where identifier identifies the product fix or feature and product identifies the product. The site_identifier.xml files for updates to the Rational Product Updater are located in the updater\60\update\ directory.

The update site and the discovery site each require a separate site.xml file. To create each site.xml file, you must combine the <feature/> information from the appropriate site_identifier.xml files.

To create or update a site.xml file, complete the following steps:

  1. Open a site_identifier.xml file in a text editor. For example, open site_611.xml.
  2. Save the file as site.xml in the same directory. If the directory already contains a file named site.xml, copy the <feature/> information from site_611.xml into the <site></site> section of site.xml.
  3. Copy the <feature/> information from each site_identifier.xml file into site.xml.

    Your rpt\611\update\site.xml will look similar to the following:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    <site>
       <feature patch="true"
          id="com.ibm.rational.performance.tester.611.if001" version="1.0.0"
          url="features/com.ibm.rational.performance.tester.611.if001_1.0.0.jar"/>
       <feature
          id="updater.rpt.common.plugins.611.if001" version="1.0.0"
          url="features/updater.rpt.common.plugins.611.if001_1.0.0.jar"/>
       <feature
          id="updater.rpt.common.wb.plugins.611.if001" version="1.0.0"
          url="features/updater.rpt.common.wb.plugins.611.if001_1.0.0.jar"/>
       <feature
          id="updater.rpt.common.nl.plugins.611.if001" version="1.0.0"
          url="features/updater.rpt.common.nl.plugins.611.if001_1.0.0.jar"/>
       <feature
          id="updater.rpt.common.doc.plugins.611.if001" version="1.0.0"
          url="features/updater.rpt.common.doc.plugins.611.if001_1.0.0.jar"/>
    </site>

2.5.3 Creating a policy.xml file

Each downloaded product fix and feature contains a product\policy_identifier.xml file that references its site_identifier.xml file. You must combine all of the policy_identifier.xml files into a single policy.xml file and edit the URL maps. After you create this file, you can use it for all product updates and reference the site.xml file that you created in the previous section.

To create the policy.xml file, complete the following steps:

  1. Open a product\policy_identifier.xml file with a text editor. For example, open policy_611.xml.
  2. In the main directory of your mirror site, save the file as policy.xml.
  3. Edit the URL map to point to site.xml instead of site_identifier.xml. Ensure that you specify a universally accessible absolute path to site.xml. For example, if your mirror site is on a Web server named server1, your policy.xml file will be similar to the following example:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    <update-policy>
       <url-map pattern="com.ibm.rational.performance.tester.update" url="http://server1/rational_updates/rpt/61/update/site.xml/">
    </update-policy>

  4. Add the URL map information from all other product\policy_identifier.xml files, such as rsa\policy_wbi_6001.xml.

    For each product that you can update from your local mirror of the update server, you should have one URL map for the update site and another URL map for the discovery site. Additional URL maps are required for feature discovery sites. The patterns are provided in each product\policy_identifier.xml file.

  5. Edit each URL map to point to site.xml instead of site_identifier.xml. Your file will be similar to the following example:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    <update-policy>
       <url-map pattern="com.ibm.rational.performance.tester.update" url="http://server1/rational_updates/rpt/61/update/site.xml"/>
       <url-map pattern="com.ibm.rational.performance.tester.discovery" url="http://server1/rational_updates/rpt/61/discovery/site.xml"/>
    </update-policy>

  6. Create a URL map for the updates to the Rational Product Updater by typing a universally accessible absolute path to its site.xml file.

    <url-map pattern="com.ibm.orca.product.updater" url="http://server1/rational_updates/updater/60/update/site.xml"/>

  7. Save the policy.xml file.

2.5.4 Installing updates from the local mirror of the update server

After the local mirror of the update server is available, users can install updates by completing the following instructions.

Install updates with the same user account that installed Rational Performance Tester.

Restrictions:

To install an update, complete the following steps:

  1. Start the Rational Product Updater:
    Note: On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0, if you use a desktop environment other than the default, the product shortcuts might not appear in the default location.

  2. Click Preferences > Update Sites.
  3. Type the path to the policy.xml file that is in the main directory of the local mirror of the update server.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Click Find Updates or Find Optional Features.

    If the Rational Product Updater requires an update, you are prompted to install it before you can continue. Click OK. The Rational Product Updater installs the update, restarts, and retrieves a list of available updates.

  6. Select the update that you want to install.

    Tip: To view the description for an update, click the update. The description is displayed in the Detailed information pane.

  7. Click Install Updates or Install Optional Features.
  8. To accept the license agreement and continue the installation, click OK.

    Depending on the speed of your computer processor and the amount of RAM in your computer, the update might take an extended period of time to install.

    After the installation is complete, the Rational Product Updater lists the installed updates on the Installed Products page.

  9. Close the Rational Product Updater.

2.6 Uninstalling the ifix

Uninstall the ifix with the same user account that installed Rational Performance Tester.

Restrictions:

To uninstall the feature, complete the following steps:

  1. Start the Rational Product Updater:
    Note: On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0, if you use a desktop environment other than the default, the product shortcuts might not appear in the default location.

  2. Click the Rollbacks tab.

    The Rollbacks page shows an inventory of updates and optional features that are currently installed for Rational Performance Tester.

  3. Select Rational Performance Tester 6.1.1 Interim Fix 001.

  4. Click Roll Back Updates.
  5. Close the Rational Product Updater.

3.0 Fixes in this release

This interim fix contains the following corrections:

4.0 Contacting customer support

The product home page for Rational Performance Tester is www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/performance/index.html. For FAQs, lists of known problems and fixes, and other support information, visit the Support page on the product home page.

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