JConsole problem: process not visible even in JPS!

I set the JMX argument in JBoss and Tomcat (-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote) and I get a
“– process information unavailable” message in JPS and “The management agent is not enabled on this process” in JConsole.
I solved with a SET of TMP environment variable different from C:\WINDOWS\Temp: SET TMP=c:\temp.
Maybe it is due to directory permissions.

Let’s start Performance Test analysis with Grinder Analyzer

To generate performance analysis I found Grinder Analyzer. Some step to start:

1. Download and unzip Grinder Analyzer
2. Download jython_installer-2.2.1.jar (at least version 2.2.1)
3. Install jython: java -jar jython_installer-2.2.1.jar (I suggest the “All” installation type)
4. Create the run.bat batch:
   set CLASSPATH=…\grinderAnalyzer.V2.b10\lib\commons-collections-3.2.jar
   …\Jython-2.2.1\jython.bat run.py %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
5. To run: run “data_agent-10.log” out_agent-10.log [# of agents]

The number of agents is an optional multiplier you can apply to the bandwidth and transactions per second graphs. Other options in …\grinderAnalyzer.V2.b10\conf\analyzer.properties. The output generated report will be in …\grinderAnalyzer.V2.b10\grinderReport directory.

Let’s start Performance Test with Grinder in 10 steps

A very quick tutorial about how to start with Grinder 3:

1. Download and unpack Grinder 3.2
2. Create a mygrinder directory (wherever you want)
3. Copy …\grinder-3.2\examples\grinder.properties to mygrinder
4. Create in mygrinder the batch console.bat: java -cp …\grinder-3.2\lib\grinder.jar net.grinder.Console
5. Create in mygrinder the batch agent.bat: java -cp …\grinder-3.2\lib\grinder.jar net.grinder.Grinder mygrinder\grinder.properties
6. Create in mygrinder the batch tcpProxy.bat java -cp …\grinder-3.2\lib\grinder.jar  net.grinder.TCPProxy -console -http [-httpproxy {host} {port}] > script_name.py (-httpproy parameter only if required)
7. To record a test script set your browser proxy settings to localhost and port 8001, disable cache, execute tcpProxy.bat, while you use the browser the tcpProxy will record the requests-responses flow. If you use a proxy server you have to uncomment the script line “connectionDefaults.setProxyServer(…)”.
8. Edit grinder.properties and add the line: grinder.jvm.arguments = -Dpython.cachedir=”mygrinder” (for example “C:\\tools\\mygrinder”)
9. The line grinder.script contains the name of the script which will be executed during the performance test: put a reference to the recorded script_name.py.
10. Execute console.bat, agent.bat and finally Start the Test!

The Console process is the collector of the performance data and Agents are the executor of the tests. They will send test data to the Console. By default the Console and the Agents communicate on port 6372 of the localhost machine. You can change this values of grinder.consoleHost and grinder.consolePort into grinder.properties.

JMeter and SOAP Request

Today I’m trying to execute a test for a Web Service(SOAP) Request but it doesn’t works! To fix it, I put mail.jar and activation.jar into the LIB directory and I restarted!