Distributed Mode

Distributed testing is a kind of testing which use multiple systems to perform stress testing

Nodes of this model

•  Master: the system running JMeter GUI, control each slave.
• Slave: the system running jmeter-server, receive command from  the master and send a request to server under test.
• Target: the web server under test, get request from slaves.

Preconditions

• The firewalls on the systems are turned off.
• All the machines should be on same subnet.
• Use the same version of JMeter.

                                                                   Rodmap

Step 1:

On the slave/Master systems, go to jmeter/bin directory and execute file "jmeter-server.bat

Step 2 :

On the master systems, go to /bin directory and edit file jmeter.properites, add IP slave machine.

Step 3 :

On the master machine, run JMeter GUI and open the test plan.Click Run on the menu bar; select Remote start -> select the IP address of slave machine .