This may be a unique situation. I currently develop my test plans on my desktop
which is running Microsoft Windows. The load agents that are responsible for
the stress tests, however, are on Linux servers. Is there a way Jmeter can
detect which OS it's running on? The one case where this is needed is when
defining the location of the data files. From my desktop, I define the path to
a network share (e.g. \\netshare\jmeter\data). On the Linux agents, we mounted
that network share to /mnt. So when the test plan runs on the Linux agent, it
needs to get the data files from /mnt/jmeter/data.
For now, I've made the data file path a parameter that I can pass in to the
test plan, but was hoping a I can define both paths and have Jmeter decide
which one to use depending on which OS it's running on.
One way is to use an OS sampler in the setUp thread and try to perform a
Windows only command (dir ?) and see if it returns and error. I can then assume
we're on a Linux server.
Thanks,
Marcelo
