posted 04-24-2002 04:04 AM           

Depends how technical you are, but the tutorials and documentation is good...

If your application is a standard web app using HTTP and cookies etc this tool will do most of everything that the main tools do..

Ive used silk performer, loadrunner, Jmeter and Open STA, if your client is on a tight budget then this tool wins hands down....

posted 04-24-2002 07:36 AM         

Anybody openSTA user has an idea ??

posted 04-24-2002 10:41 AM         

Ok I'm trying openSTA. It looks good, but I already got some questions with that tool:
- Where can I access the average response time to each transaction for my virtual users ?

----->There is a whole 'Results' section, this is explained very well in the Documentation

- Is it possible to obtain the performance results from the web server, like %CPU and %RAM occupied ? Does it depend on the web server ?

-----> There are 'collectors' which you can set up to obtain any Windows/Unix Performance measures. This is also documented.

- What are the hardware requirements for the use of the tool: for example the average client machine RAM and CPU per virtual users ?

---->Depends on the script, how much parsing you need to do etc. for PIII 600mhz 256mb, 100 vusers browsing would be an estimate.

- Does this software permit to run non-HTTP scripts (like Telnet transactions) ?

------>NO

Anybody openSTA user has an idea ??

------->There is a seperate OpenSTA topic on this web site but you need to read the documentation and experiment first, as the more detailed questions are usually answered but not the 'how do I find the 'results section' ? type of question.

Regards

Ian

posted 04-24-2002 12:15 PM         

You can actually use it with any web server. All the thing does is record and generate http traffic. However, the tool doesnt do a hell of a lot and is pretty limited.

There are however certain features that will only work with MS IIS.

posted 04-24-2002 03:41 PM         

Good Luck
Imad

posted 04-24-2002 05:20 PM         

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Originally posted by Ian:
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- Is it possible to obtain the performance results from the web server, like %CPU and %RAM occupied ? Does it depend on the web server ?

-----> There are 'collectors' which you can set up to obtain any Windows/Unix Performance measures. This is also documented.

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One bit of advice if you have trouble with collectors on servers:

One problem I struggled with for awhile was getting the collectors to actually pull data from the servers. I ended up posting a help request to the open-sta users list and got the suggestion that I try mapping a share to the server. That did it.