Testing SOAP attribute groups

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

1. You can start the Testing procedure in the following ways:
   • During agent creation click Test on the SOAP 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 Test SOAP Collection window is displayed.

2. Optional: Before you start testing, you can set environment variables, configuration properties, and Java™ information.
   For more information, see Attribute group testing. For more information about SOAP configuration, see SOAP configuration.
3. Change the URL, Row Selection XPath, and request type.
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. This action populates the Results table and you can preview how the data is parsed and shown in columns in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
   In the Results area, you can change the attribute definitions and reload the data to see how your changes affect the attribute group. You can right-click in a column results area to display options to edit the attribute. The attribute edit options are:

   • Edit Attribute
   • Hide Attribute
   • Insert Attribute Before
   • Insert Attribute After
   • Remove
   • Remove Subsequent Attributes
   • Remove All
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 shown 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 Test SOAP Collection window. Clicking OK saves any changes that you made.