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Master server configuration - Apache JMeter Tutorial
From the course: Advanced JMeter
Master server configuration
- Test distribution allows me to spread my test across several machines at once. However, I need to have that hardware available to me beforehand in order to distribute that test. Distribute a test include JMeter works using a master server configuration meaning that one machine, the master, orchestrates the distribution of the tests to all of the servers. All of the servers then perform the testing and report back to the master with the results. This means that if I want to distribute my tests across two machines, I'd actually need three: two servers and one master. Another thing to remember is that each of the master and server machines need to have JMeter installed and they all need to be the same version otherwise, distribution just won't work. They also all need to be on the same logical network. Now there are ways around this, depending on your infrastructure which I'll get into shortly, but it's worth keeping this in mind. For this test, I'm going to have one master machine and…
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