Author: sebb
Date: Sun Feb 4 14:59:18 2007
New Revision: 503506
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=503506
Log:
Various documentation clarifications
Modified:
jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/component_reference.xml
jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/get-started.xml
jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/listeners.xml
Modified:
jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/component_reference.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/component_reference.xml?view=diff&rev=503506&r1=503505&r2=503506
==============================================================================
--- jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/component_reference.xml
(original)
+++ jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/component_reference.xml
Sun Feb 4 14:59:18 2007
@@ -129,19 +129,23 @@
<note>The HTTP methods HEAD, TRACE, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE are new in 2.1.2, and
may have some teething problems.</note>
<properties>
<property name="Name" required="No">Descriptive name for this
controller that is shown in the tree.</property>
- <property name="Server" required="Yes">Domain name or IP address of
the web server.</property>
+ <property name="Server" required="No">Domain name or IP address of the
web server.</property>
<property name="Port" required="No">Port the web server is listening
to. Default: 80</property>
<property name="Protocol" required="No">HTTP or HTTPS. Default:
HTTP</property>
<property name="Method" required="Yes">GET, POST, HEAD, TRACE,
OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE</property>
- <property name="Redirect Automatically" required="No">
+ <property name="Redirect Automatically" required="Yes">
Sets the underlying http protocol handler to automatically
follow redirects,
so they are not seen by JMeter, and thus will not appear as
samples.
</property>
- <property name="Follow Redirects" required="No">
+ <property name="Follow Redirects" required="Yes">
+ This only has any effect if "Redirect Automatically" is not
enabled.
If set, the JMeter sampler will check if the response is a
redirect and follow it if so.
The redirect response will appear as an additional sample.
+ Note that the HttpClient sampler may log the following
message:<br/>
+ "Redirect requested but followRedirects is disabled"<br/>
+ This can be ignored.
</property>
- <property name="Use KeepAlive" required="No">JMeter sets the
Connection: keep-alive header. This does not work properly with the default
HTTP implementation, as connection re-use is not under user-control.
+ <property name="Use KeepAlive" required="Yes">JMeter sets the
Connection: keep-alive header. This does not work properly with the default
HTTP implementation, as connection re-use is not under user-control.
It does work with the Jakarta httpClient
implementation.</property>
<property name="Path" required="Yes">The path to resource (for
example, /servlets/myServlet). If the
resource requires query string parameters, add them below in the
@@ -167,7 +171,7 @@
and send HTTP/HTTPS requests for all images, Java applets, JavaScript files,
CSSs, etc. referenced in the file.
See below for more details.
</property>
- <property name="Use as monitor" required="No">For use with the
<complink name="Monitor Results"/> listener.</property>
+ <property name="Use as monitor" required="Yes">For use with the
<complink name="Monitor Results"/> listener.</property>
</properties>
<p>Upto and including JMeter 2.1.1, only responses with the content-type
"text/html" were scanned for
embedded resources. Other content-types were assumed to be something other
than HTML.
@@ -1382,6 +1386,12 @@
It then adds a "sample" entry to the test output with
the total elapsed time.
The name of the element is used to name the "sample".
</p>
+ <p>
+ The generated sample time includes all the times for the nested
samplers, and any timers etc.
+ Depending on the clock resolution, it may be slightly longer
than the sum of the individual samplers plus timers.
+ The clock might tick after the controller recorded the start
time but before the first sample starts.
+ Similarly at the end.
+ </p>
</description>
<properties>
<property name="Name" required="Yes">Descriptive name for this
controller that is shown in the tree, and used to name the
transaction.</property>
@@ -1648,7 +1658,8 @@
<li># Samples - The number of samples for the URL</li>
<li>Average - The average time of a set of results</li>
<li>Median - The median is the time in the middle of a set of results.</li>
-<li>90% Line - 90% of the results finished faster than the line.</li>
+<li>90% Line - the maximum time taken for the fastest 90% of the samples. #
+The remaining samples took longer than this.</li>
<li>Min - The lowest time for the samples of the given URL</li>
<li>Max - The longest time for the samples of the given URL</li>
<li>Error % - Percent of requests with errors</li>
@@ -1691,6 +1702,10 @@
1000 data points at 5 second intervals, the monitor would check the server
status 12 times a minute or 720 times a hour. This means the buffer shows
the performance history of each machine for the last hour.</p>
+<note>
+The monitor requires Tomcat 5 or above.
+Use a browser to check that you can access the Tomcat status servlet OK.
+</note>
</description>
</component>
Modified: jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/get-started.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/get-started.xml?view=diff&rev=503506&r1=503505&r2=503506
==============================================================================
--- jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/get-started.xml (original)
+++ jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/get-started.xml Sun Feb 4
14:59:18 2007
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@
If your version of Java does not include SSL support, then it is possible to
add an external implementation.
Include the necessary encryption packages in JMeter's <a
href="#classpath">classpath</a>. Also, update <a
href="#configuring_jmeter">jmeter.properties</a>
to register the SSL Provider.</p>
+<p><b>JMeter is configured to accept all certificates,
+whether trusted or not, regardless of validity periods etc.</b>
+This is to allow the maximum flexibility in testing servers.</p>
+<p>If the server requires a client certificate, this can be provided.</p>
<p>There is also the <complink name="SSL Manager"/>, for greater control of
certificates.</p>
<note>The JMeter proxy server (see below) does not support recording SSL
(https).</note>
</subsection>
@@ -148,18 +152,18 @@
</p>
<subsection name="2.4.1 JMeter's Classpath" anchor="classpath">
-<p>JMeter automatically finds classes from jars in its /lib and /lib/ext
directories.
+<p>JMeter automatically finds classes from jars in its JMETER_HOME/lib and
JMETER_HOME/lib/ext directories.
If you have developed new JMeter components,
-then you should jar them and copy the jar into JMeter's /lib/ext directory.
JMeter will
+then you should jar them and copy the jar into JMeter's JMETER_HOME/lib/ext
directory. JMeter will
automatically find JMeter components in any jars found here.
-Support jars should be placed in the lib directory.
-If you don't want to put the extension jars in the lib/ext directory,
+Support jars should be placed in the JMETER_HOME/lib directory.
+If you don't want to put the extension jars in the JMETER_HOME/lib/ext
directory,
then define the property <b>search_paths</b> in jmeter.properties.
Do not use lib/ext for utility jars; it is only intended for JMeter components.
</p>
<p>
-Other jars (such as JDBC, and any support libaries needed by the JMeter code)
- should be placed in the lib directory.</p>
+Other jars (such as JDBC, JavaMail, Beanshell and any other support libaries
needed by the JMeter code)
+ should be placed in the JMETER_HOME/lib directory - not the lib/ext
directory</p>
<p>Note: JMeter will only find .jar files, not .zip.</p>
<p>You can also install utility Jar files in $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext, or (since
2.1.1) you can set the property user.classpath in jmeter.properties</p>
<p>Note that setting the CLASSPATH environment variable will have no effect.
@@ -245,8 +249,7 @@
10/17/2003 12:19:20 PM INFO - jmeter.JMeter: Version 1.9.20031002
10/17/2003 12:19:45 PM INFO - jmeter.gui.action.Load: Loading file:
c:\mytestfiles\BSH.jmx
10/17/2003 12:19:52 PM INFO - jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Running the
test!
-10/17/2003 12:19:52 PM INFO - jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine:
-Starting 1 threads for group BSH. Ramp up = 1.
+10/17/2003 12:19:52 PM INFO - jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Starting 1
threads for group BSH. Ramp up = 1.
10/17/2003 12:19:52 PM INFO - jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Continue on
error
10/17/2003 12:19:52 PM INFO - jmeter.threads.JMeterThread: Thread BSH1-1
started
10/17/2003 12:19:52 PM INFO - jmeter.threads.JMeterThread: Thread BSH1-1 is
done
@@ -315,12 +318,11 @@
</note>
<properties>
<property name="ssl.provider">You can specify the class for your SSL
- implementation. If you are using the JSSE from sun, then it is:<br/>
- com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider. JMeter, by default, should
provide https support is you are
- using JDK1.4.</property>
+ implementation if you don't want to use the built-in Java
implementation.
+ </property>
<property name="xml.parser">You can specify an implementation as your
XML
parser. The default value is:
org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser</property>
- <property name="remote_hosts">Comma-delimited list of remote JMeter hosts.
+ <property name="remote_hosts">Comma-delimited list of remote JMeter hosts
(or host:port if required).
If you are running JMeter in a distributed environment, list the
machines where
you have JMeter remote servers running. This will allow you to control those
servers from this machine's GUI</property>
Modified: jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/listeners.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/listeners.xml?view=diff&rev=503506&r1=503505&r2=503506
==============================================================================
--- jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/listeners.xml (original)
+++ jakarta/jmeter/branches/rel-2-2/xdocs/usermanual/listeners.xml Sun Feb 4
14:59:18 2007
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
-->
+
+<!DOCTYPE document
+[
+<!ENTITY sect-num '14'>
+]>
+
<document prev="build-monitor-test-plan.html" next="remote-test.html"
date="$Date$">
<properties>
@@ -23,7 +29,7 @@
<body>
-<section name="14. Introduction to listeners" anchor="intro">
+<section name="§-num;. Introduction to listeners" anchor="intro">
<p>A listener is a component that shows the results of the
samples. The results can be shown in a tree, tables, graphs or simply written
to a log
file. To view the contents of a response from any given sampler, add either of
the Listeners "View
@@ -51,7 +57,7 @@
</p>
</section>
-<section name="14.1 Screen captures" anchor="screencap">
+<section name="§-num;.1 Screen captures" anchor="screencap">
<p>JMeter is capable of saving any listener as a PNG file. To do so, select the
listener in the left panel. Click edit -> Save As Image. A file dialog will
appear. Enter the desired name and save the listener.
@@ -59,7 +65,7 @@
<figure image="save_image.png">Figure 1 - Edit -> Save As Image</figure>
</section>
-<section name="14.2 non-GUI (batch) test runs" anchor="batch">
+<section name="§-num;.2 non-GUI (batch) test runs" anchor="batch">
<p>
When running in non-GUI mode, the -l flag can be used to create a top-level
listener for the test run.
This is in addition to any Listeners defined in the test plan.
@@ -84,7 +90,7 @@
</p>
</section>
-<section name="14.3 Resource usage" anchor="resources">
+<section name="§-num;.3 Resource usage" anchor="resources">
<p>
Listeners can be quite resource intensive so use as few as possible.
For minimum resource usage, remove all listeners, and run the test in non-GUI
mode with the -l flag to define a single listener.
@@ -92,7 +98,7 @@
</p>
</section>
-<section name="14.4 CSV Log format" anchor="csvlogformat">
+<section name="§-num;.4 CSV Log format" anchor="csvlogformat">
<p>
The CSV log format depends on which data items are selected in the
configuration.
Only the specified data items are recorded in the file.
@@ -118,15 +124,17 @@
</p>
</section>
-<section name="14.5 XML Log format 2.0" anchor="xmlformat2.0">
+<section name="§-num;.5 XML Log format 2.0" anchor="xmlformat2.0">
<p>
The format of the original XML (2.0) is as follows (line breaks will be
different):
</p>
<pre>
&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
&lt;testResults version="1.2">
-&lt;sampleResult timeStamp="1144365463297" dataType="text"
threadName="Listen 1-1" label="HTTP Request" time="1502" responseMessage="OK"
responseCode="200" success="true">
- &lt;sampleResult timeStamp="1144365464238" dataType="text"
threadName="Listen 1-1" label="http://www.apache.org/style/style.css";
time="171" responseMessage="OK" responseCode="200" success="true">
+&lt;sampleResult timeStamp="1144365463297" dataType="text"
threadName="Listen 1-1"
+ label="HTTP Request" time="1502" responseMessage="OK" responseCode="200"
success="true">
+ &lt;sampleResult timeStamp="1144365464238" dataType="text"
threadName="Listen 1-1"
+ label="http://www.apache.org/style/style.css"; time="171"
responseMessage="OK" responseCode="200" success="true">
&lt;property xml:space="preserve" name="samplerData">
GET http://www.apache.org/style/style.css
&lt;/property>
@@ -146,7 +154,7 @@
</pre>
</section>
-<section name="14.6 XML Log format 2.1" anchor="xmlformat2.1">
+<section name="§-num;.6 XML Log format 2.1" anchor="xmlformat2.1">
<p>
The format of the updated XML (2.1) is as follows (line breaks will be
different):
</p>
@@ -156,8 +164,10 @@
-- HTTP Sample, with nested samples
-&lt;httpSample t="1392" lt="351" ts="1144371014619" s="true" lb="HTTP
Request" rc="200" rm="OK" tn="Listen 1-1" dt="text" de="iso-8859-1" by="12407">
- &lt;httpSample t="170" lt="170" ts="1144371015471" s="true"
lb="http://www.apache.org/style/style.css"; rc="200" rm="OK" tn="Listen 1-1"
dt="text" de="ISO-8859-1" by="1002">
+&lt;httpSample t="1392" lt="351" ts="1144371014619" s="true" lb="HTTP
Request" rc="200" rm="OK"
+ tn="Listen 1-1" dt="text" de="iso-8859-1" by="12407">
+ &lt;httpSample t="170" lt="170" ts="1144371015471" s="true"
+ lb="http://www.apache.org/style/style.css"; rc="200" rm="OK" tn="Listen
1-1" dt="text" de="ISO-8859-1" by="1002">
&lt;responseHeader class="java.lang.String">HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:50:14 GMT
...
@@ -177,7 +187,8 @@
&lt;queryString class="java.lang.String">&lt;/queryString>
&lt;url>http://www.apache.org/style/style.css&lt;/url>
&lt;/httpSample>
- &lt;httpSample t="200" lt="180" ts="1144371015641" s="true"
lb="http://www.apache.org/images/asf_logo_wide.gif"; rc="200" rm="OK" tn="Listen
1-1" dt="bin" de="ISO-8859-1" by="5866">
+ &lt;httpSample t="200" lt="180" ts="1144371015641" s="true"
lb="http://www.apache.org/images/asf_logo_wide.gif";
+ rc="200" rm="OK" tn="Listen 1-1" dt="bin" de="ISO-8859-1" by="5866">
&lt;responseHeader class="java.lang.String">HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:50:14 GMT
...
@@ -217,7 +228,8 @@
-- nonHTTPP Sample
-&lt;sample t="0" lt="0" ts="1144372616082" s="true" lb="Example Sampler"
rc="200" rm="OK" tn="Listen 1-1" dt="text" de="ISO-8859-1" by="10">
+&lt;sample t="0" lt="0" ts="1144372616082" s="true" lb="Example Sampler"
rc="200" rm="OK"
+ tn="Listen 1-1" dt="text" de="ISO-8859-1" by="10">
&lt;responseHeader class="java.lang.String">&lt;/responseHeader>
&lt;requestHeader class="java.lang.String">&lt;/requestHeader>
&lt;responseData class="java.lang.String">Listen
1-1&lt;/responseData>
@@ -259,7 +271,7 @@
</p>
</section>
-<section name="14.7 Saving response data" anchor="saving">
+<section name="§-num;.7 Saving response data" anchor="saving">
<p>
As shown above, the response data can be saved in the XML log file if required.
However, this can make the file rather large, and the text has to be encoded so
@@ -271,6 +283,10 @@
The data will be retrieved from the file if necessary when the sample log file
is reloaded.
</p>
</section>
-
+<section name="§-num;.8 Loading (reading) response data" anchor="loading">
+<p>To view an existing results file, you can use the File "Browse..." button
to select a file.
+If necessary, just create a dummy testplan with the appropriate Listener in it.
+</p>
+</section>
</body>
</document>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
![http://www.apache.org/images/asf_logo_wide.gif"](http://www.apache.org/images/asf_logo_wide.gif"){kind=link}