Testing HTTP attribute groups

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You can test the HTTP attribute group that you created, within Agent Builder.

Procedure

  1. Start the Testing procedure in the following ways:
    • During agent creation click Test on the HTTP Information page.
    • After agent creation, select an attribute group on the Agent Editor Data Source Definition page and click Test. For more information about the Agent Editor, see Using the Agent Editor to modify the agent

    After you click Test in one of the previous two steps, the HTTP Test window is displayed.

  2. Click Browse to select the HTTP URLs file. For more information about URLs files, see URLs file.
  3. Optional: Set environment variables, configuration properties, and Java™ information before you start testing.
    For more information, see Attribute group testing. For more information about HTTP configuration, see HTTP configuration.
  4. Click Start Agent.
    A window indicates that the Agent is starting.
  5. To simulate a request from Tivoli® Enterprise Portal or SOAP for agent data, click Collect Data.
    The agent monitors the URLs defined in the HTTP URLs file. The HTTP Test window displays any data that is returned.
  6. Optional: Click Check Results if the returned data is not as you expected.
    The Data Collection Status window opens and shows you more information about the data. The data that is collected and displayed by the Data collection Status window is described in Performance Object Status node
  7. Stop the agent by clicking Stop Agent.
  8. Click OK or Cancel to exit the HTTP Test window. Clicking OK saves any changes that you made.