Another post for my fading memory, how to install the GD libraries for your Leopard Apache installation running PHP 5.2.5. I will be using these libraries in a forthcoming blog about the use of ‘sparklines‘ to present complex performance monitoring data.
Now on with installation. Thanks to topicdesk for leading the way with detailed OSX 10.5.x [...]
If you’ve been using a Macbook Pro or similar for some time, you’ll find that their batteries need tender love and care, if they are to go the distance. According to Apple, I fit into the ‘ideal use’ category as I regularly use my notebook on the 1+ hour daily train commute.
However as the recent [...]
In working with SiteScope of late, I’ve found that it doesn’t always collect performance metrics the way I want to. More importantly, it can often turn a simple monitoring activity into a complex disaster. Take monitoring via JMX for example. In SiteScope, it has a rather complicated (and sometimes broken) interface when trying to communicate [...]
After getting nowhere with lack luster HP support, I turned to the power of the Open Source community and got a very simple script up and running to remotely monitor Weblogic JVM Performance and JMS queues using JMX and JRuby.
Despite having some initial issues with the code, the author of the jmx4r module turned around [...]
I quite literally stole this idea from Charlie at PerformanceEngineering in which he posted a response to a challenge by Dmitry on how to get regular expressions up and running within LoadRunner.
I’m a huge fan of regex, and thanks to these guys, now have a way of implementing at least pattern matching with LoadRunner. Ideally [...]
HP LoadRunner Analysis is a free tool right? Well, maybe not “free, as in free beer”, but you can certainly install the trial version of LoadRunner 9.x, and Analysis does not appear to be time limited.
All right, I realise that the Controller is time limited, so how do you go about importing data into LoadRunner [...]
Mercury’s Virtual Table Server (VTS) provides the following functionality when sharing data between vusers in your typical LoadRunner scenario …
Virtual Table Server (VTS) first edition, introduced the capability for LoadRunner virtual users, WinRunner and XRunner, to communicate in real time. Data extraction and communication was simplified but limited to column/queue level operations. The new Virtual [...]