RE : Multi target test plans

[ka...@orange-ftgroup.com]

Thank you for this response.

This functionality may be useful when system under test is composed of many servers or follows a distributed architecture like peep to peep systems (the target is client and server at the same time). Furthermore, it allows to simulate user behaviors (a behavior = test plan). In telephonic platform, for example, a user may be a caller, responder, forwarder, observer, etc.

Solution that consists in launching many JMeter GUI have some drawbacks:
1/ Need to launch as JMeter GUIs as target systems. My system contains many nodes/servers.
2/ Not suitable for large scale systems. We can't have a global view to monitor tests. Otherwise, we aren't able to manage simultaneously JMeter servers: deploy test plans on JMeter servers, start/stop sampling or observe testing results at runtime.

Using CSVDataSetConfig may be used to specify server target, but I don't see how it can specify how to dispatch test plans on JMeter server.

I would like to use JMeter because it's extensible, have a user friendly GUI, but this functionality is mandatory to my tests. Hope it's possible with JMeter even using a workaround.
Note:  This functionality is available on Clif platform

Regards,
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Ammous

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De : Felix Frank [ff@mpexnet.de]
Date d'envoi : mercredi 29 septembre 2010 12:19
À : JMeter Users List
Objet : Re: Multi target test plans

On 09/29/2010 12:05 PM, kammous.ext@orange-ftgroup.com wrote:
> Dear JMeter users,
>
> I am a new JMeter user and I would like to ask you kindly to helping me in resolving this issue :
>
> In the distributed JMeter testing tutorial  :
>
> http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/jmeter_distributed_testing_step_by_step.pdf
>
> all JMeter servers stress the same system target server according to the same test plan.
>
> My concern  is :
> Is it possible to deploy different test plans on the different JMeter servers such as each JMeter server is used to stress its own target server ?

I am not aware of a possibility in Jmeter to do that, nor do I see the
value in such a feature. It might be more clear if you'd give more
information about your scenario.

A workaround might be to use a CSVDataSetConfig and deploy csv files on
all Jmeter servers that specify the target server. I cannot comment on
the possible difficulties in such a hack.

The best way that I can see is not using the Jmeter server at all, but
launching stand-alone Jmeters on all Jmeter machines, using different
test plans each.

Regards,
Felix

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Re: RE : Multi target test plans

[Felix Frank <ff...@mpexnet.de>]

> Solution that consists in launching many JMeter GUI have some drawbacks:

I did not imply using the GUI. I find the GUI helpful mostly for
creating Test Plans. As a rule, I will run real stress tests in non-GUI
mode. This is can even be scaled out, but the server is usually better
suited, no doubt about it.

Cheers,
Felix

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