Load Agent and Load Controller Installation and Configuration Guide

Load Agent Install Guide

Ed Glas's blog on VSTS load testing — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:49:20 GMT

Here is the install guide for the agent and controller. It contains a bunch of useful sizing and configuration

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alipka — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:36:25 GMT

Hi Ed,

I am trying to set up an environment where I will have a test controller communicating with agents through NAT. The agents will work in workgroup mode as you specify. However I need to know two things to verify if my approach will work:

1. Do TCP connections only go from Controller to Agent, or does sometimes an Agent initiate communication with the Controller? (If yes, then I would need to work around it in NAT config somehow)

2. What exact ports need to be opened between the test controller and agents? You only specify that there are some exceptions, but do not give info what exact exceptions are needed. I need this information to set up the firewall rules that isolate the test controller and test agents.

Another approach that I am considering is placing the Test controller on the same network as agents, but then I have the issue of Test Controller <-> TFS communication. Do you know if it is possible to run such configuration if the test controller is in one domain and the TFS server in another untrusted domain?

Which approach would you recommend?

The general problem is that the development environment where the TFS server sits is another domain and another network separated by NAT and firewall from the test environment. I would imagine that is a pretty common scenario and there must be a solution to that.

Thanks in advance for any information,

Andrzej

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JMarkHowell — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:53:11 GMT

Ed, thank you SO much. This is exactly what I was looking for. Keep up the great work!

Mark.

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nileshgujarathi — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:10:43 GMT

Hi Ed

Thanks for the Agent and controller help.

I have downloaded visual studio team system 2005 180 days trail version.

and now I want to install Agent and controller.

As you mentioned that setup files are present in the folder vs\Agent and VS\Controller.

But In the VSTS setup folder i have not found the vs\agent folder and vs\controller folder

so please explain me from where i will find this folder for the vsts Agent and Controller installation.

Also explain me that VSTS 2005 180 days trial version supports agent and Controller functionality.?

Thanks

Nilesh

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Durgaprasad Gorti's WebLog — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:18:29 GMT

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Shai Raiten — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:02:07 GMT

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DSF — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:19:29 GMT

Hi Ed.

We have a setup where the controller is within the test domain A and the load agent has 2 NIC cards to access domain A while on domain B. The test rig thus has the controller in domain A while it controls the load agent which is in domain A&B.

The interesting thing that happens here is that if you initiate a load test from the load agent side, the test rig shows all is connected but it remains in a pending state and does not start the actual load test. When you initiate the same test from the Controller the test rig starts the tests with no problem.

We have narrowed the problem down to what we think the problem is and that is the fact that we have not setup Kerberos delegation in our environment and initiating the test from the load agent side means a hop from the agent to the controller and than back to the load agent again, where starting the test from the controller is only one hop from the ctlr to the agent. Please comment on this theory, as we don't find any error logs or exceptions to prove that. Also are there any other issues or tips you can recommend to solve this other than setting up Kerberos or moving the load agent onto domain A only ?

Regards.

David.

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BrianLei — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:44:38 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/pages/load-agent-and-load-controller-installation-and-configuration-gui...

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jpt007 — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:39:27 GMT

I cannot seem to find what is the recommended # of NIC's for an Agent?

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Santhan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:17:37 GMT

Hi please advise

I want to know if the Service Account and password that we specify for the controller and at the agent:

1. during the agent installation does the controller box needs to be logged in as this service account?

2. I am running the agent on my box and my project lead is running the controller on her box. Please advise how the accounts shoud work (we are in the same domain)??

thanks

cheers

San

re: Load Agent and Load Controller Installation and Configuration Guide

Santhan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:19:39 GMT

I meant

I want to know if the Service Account and password that we specify for the controller and at the agent should be the account used when installing the controller setup at one box and the agent setup at another box.

re: Load Agent and Load Controller Installation and Configuration Guide

DH_1313 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:48:07 GMT

I have setup the controller and a remote agent. There is a firewall in between with the required ports open but the agent is still showing as disconnected. These are two different domains and a trust is not going to be allowed. All user accounts have been setup as local users and all match with passwords. Please help as this is delaying testing.

Thanks

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