Jmeter Plug-in’s for Monitoring the Servers

1. Jmeter Server Agent:            

During a load/performance test you can monitor CPU, Memory, Disks I/O and 

Networks I/O etc. using Jmeter tool... To address this we need to install 

Jmeter plugin (Server agent) package in the server to be monitored.

         

Installation

Latest server agent plug-in will be available to download @ 

http://jmeter-plugins.org/downloads/all/

Steps:

1. Download the Server Agent from - http://jmeter-plugins.org/downloads/all

2. Unzip the Server agent somewhere on the server.

3. Launch the Server agent using startAgent.bat script on Windows or startAgent.sh 

    script on UNIX

- Click ‘Run’

- Server agent started

     Note: 

     A. The agent is written in Java, so will need JRE 1.4+ to run it.

     B. You need to open the port 4444 (default) on the server machine.

2.  Adding PerfMon Metrics Collector Listener to Jmeter        

     Once the PerfMon Agent is running, you can collect data in Jmeter tool using the 

     PerMon Metrics Collector plugin which is a listener that communicates 

     with Server Agent on each server machine.

     

     Perfmon Metrics Collector Plugin will come with the plugin package 

     JMeterPlugins-Standard-x.x.x.zip.

    Steps to add:

     1. Download the JmeterPlugins-Standard file from - 

      http://jmeter-plugins.org/downloads/all/

     2. Unzip the plugin file somewhere on the Jmeter machine

     3. Copy the JMeterPlugins-Standard.jar file from 

     JmeterPluginsStandard_1.3.0  >> lib >> ext

     4. Place this JmeterPlugins-Standard.jar file in Jmeter lib\ext file 

      apache-jmeter-2.13 >> lib >> ext

    5. Now you can add and monitor this Listener in Jmeter tool as below

    Jmeter >> TestPlan/ThreadGroup >> Listener >> jp@gc-PerfMon Metrics Collector

  

    6. Add Server/Host details to monitor

             

      Note: You need to open the port 4444 (default) on the server machine.