hi, I have a utility task that before every run that generates new user accounts in the database. If these accounts already exists then it will reuse them. I want to run this task only once regardless of the number of threads, loops configured for the test plan. You can say that it is a setup task for the jmeter script. I tried various options but it didn't work for me. For instance I tried creating a sampler under run once-only controller. But it executes for each thread. I tried creating a sampler in a different thread group but that didn't help either. As it launches this sampler and sampler in other thread group simultaneously. I thought I'll try to put all the samplers under if-controller that checks for certain variable set by the sampler but that didn't work either. Like I said I want run this task once and once only irrespective of the number of threads/users/loops. I could run it before launching the jmeter script but I thought it would be cleaner if it can be part of jmeter configuration.
I'd appreciate If anyone has any suggestion? Thanks! B.C. PS: I apologize if this question has been asked and answered before. I couldn't find the search functionality and I browsed the archives for last few months but didn't find anything relevant.
