Archive for May, 2007
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Once again on the topic of performance testing Business Objects, when executing a benchmark for a web intelligence report with goal being to see how many concurrent users it could support, the following error mesage was being generated in the vuser log:
Connection failed. The server has reached the maximum number ...
Posted in LoadRunner, BO, Tuning | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
I find when testing I need to archive copious amounts of data. Occasionally I need to create a bootable disk image for use in the creation of virtual machines or impromptu test labs. Storing this information and images in the ISO format is quite handy.
Most people will already know how ...
Posted in OSX | 2 Comments »
Friday, May 18th, 2007
If you have the requirement to manipulate multitudes of input messages / log files / data templates with dynamic variables, you may be left wondering what is the best approach. One could argue in a friendly way for hours about which language is the best to achieve this outcome (almost ...
Posted in Perl, Programming | 3 Comments »
Friday, May 18th, 2007
I have been working on some template LoadRunner scripts for Business Objects Web Intelligence / Crystal Reports which require good ole fashioned manual correlation.
Before writing this post, in the background I have been working on a tool comparison between LoadRunner and my increasing favourite JMeter with a simple (?) scripting ...
Posted in LoadRunner, BO, Testing | 6 Comments »
Saturday, May 5th, 2007
For an internet facing SSH server, it is probably common practice to have sshd listening on a non-standard port. Coupled with key pair authentication, this reduces the profile you present to simple brute force attacks.
Connecting to a SSH server on a non standard port is relatively simple:
ssh -p username@servername.com
You ...
Posted in Win2K3, Network, Security | No Comments »
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
An associate of mine recently wanted a load script that could simulate thousands of UDP packets carrying a custom payload coming from different IP addresses. They were implementing a customised RFID solution that needed to simulate load from a lot of sources (think active RFID tags).
There are many different ways ...
Posted in Ruby, Network, Testing | No Comments »
