The Awesome LoadRunner Feature Added In 12.56 That No One Talks About
Scott Moore ?
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I often encounter an age-old hassle over monitoring servers and infrastructure under test. Being a performance engineer, I need to see system resources for the application in real-time as a test is running. Sometimes the company does not know about all the infrastructure that needs monitoring. Other times they just don't want to give me the required access. SaaS is a whole different issue. For this article, let's assume on-premise servers with Windows and Unix/Linux machines. After tracing down the machines that need to be monitored, permission is technically easy. That is, once you win the political battle. My article on how to monitor Oracle with a baseball bat is still making the circles, but I digress...
With LoadRunner version 12.56, a new feature was quietly introduced that extremely beneficial. There isn't a lot of information written about it online, except in the LoadRunner help documentation. It's important to know why I think this is a big deal, so let's review how we got here to provide context.?To read the rest of this, go to my blog page (ha ha - got you hooked didn't I?) right here: