PerfMon for JMeter

Prerequisites:

1. JRE 1.6 or above


2. JMeter 2.8 or above

Steps:

Installing Server Agent in Server machine:

Step 1:  Download ServerAgent-2.2.1.zip from http://jmeter-plugins.org/downloads/all/
Step 2:  UnZip the ServerAgent-2.2.1.zip in the Server machine(tomcat machine root directory).
Step 3:  Run the startAgent.sh using sudo.
Step 4:  We can run startAgent.sh with different arguments and settings. For Instance, running server agent using                           different tcp port instead of default port(4444) like below.
sudo ./startAgent.sh --udp-port 0 --tcp-port 4560
Step 5:  Now the Server agent instance is running in the server with tcp port 4444.


Installing PerfMon Plugin in Jmeter:

Step 1:  Download JMeterPlugins-Standard-1.1.3.zip from http://jmeter-plugins.org/downloads/all/.
Step 2:  UnZip JMeterPlugins-Standard-1.1.3.zip to Jmeter Home (JMMETER_HOME\apache-jmeter-2.11\lib\ext).
Step 3:  Run the Jmeter using Jmeter.bat or from console.
Step 4:  Jmeter Window will be opened.
Step 5:  Right click on Test Plan->Select->Listener->Check jp@gc-PerfMon Metrics Collector is visible. This means                          plugin installed successfully.
Step 6:  Select the Listener and the Right Pane will be displayed like below.

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