How to run jmeter test through remote servers via jenkins

Question

I am having a linux machine (say m1) [an openStack machine] to run my jmeter test. My typical process was to put latest jmx file on this machine and trigger below command: nohup /path/to/jmeter/bin/jmeter -n -t /path/to/script/test.jmx -l /path/to/resultsFolder/results.jtl

Now, I want to trigger same test via jenkins job which should actually do the same activity as above.

I perform two activities (one is to manually trigger jmeter-server on m1 and other to run jenkins job to run test via m1)

1. To start jmeter server Ran following command manually on m1 ( SERVER_PORT=1099 nohup /path/to/jmeter/bin/jmeter-server)

2. Jenkins Job

I have created a jenkins pipeline job: Stage1: checks out jmeter in jenkins master stage2: checks out latest script in jenkins master stage3: Runs jmeter remote test -
command used : sh ''' chmod u+x jmeter/bin/jmeter.sh jmeter/bin/jmeter.sh -n -t path/where/jenkins/checked/latest/test/test.jmx -R 10.X.X.X -l results.jtl'''

• Stage1 and stage2 runs perfectly.

• Stage3: console output shows as below

  • jmeter/bin/jmeter.sh -n -t jmeter/bin/jmeter.sh -n -t path/where/jenkins/checked/latest/test/test.jmx -R 10.X.X.X -l results.jtl
• Creating summariser
• Created the tree successfully using path/where/jenkins/checked/latest/test/test.jmx
• Configuring remote engine: 10.X.X.X
• Starting remote engines
• Starting the test @ Tue Aug 14 10:41:46 CEST 2018 (1534236106818)
• Remote engines have been started
• Waiting for possible shutdown message on port 4445

And it keep showing processing ......... unless I trigger manual shutdown.

So, I'm looking for two things

• a mechanism to start jmeter-server on slave nodes via jenkins job itself
• Running test via remote machines (which can go locations within load machine and trigger test from there itslef)

. Any ideas appreciated. Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

You can launch jmeter server on remote slaves in at least 2 ways:

1. From Jenkins using Jenkins SSH Plugin
2. From JMeter itself using OS Process Sampler or SSH Command plugin (in this case you will have 2 scripts, one which will set everything up and another will be the main test in distributed mode.