Configuration/Troubleshooting the setup of Controller and Load Generator Machines - Part1

General Firewall setup:

The MI Listener can be decided by selection through Admin Site in Performance Center. This selection does not need to be changed generally.



Note: If Controller and MI Listener are on different machines, then port 50500 needs to be opened between Controller and MI Listener machines.

Steps to setup monitor/running Vuser over firewall
General Setup steps:

Shut down LoadRunner programs (controller, agent…) before the setup. For this, you may need to kill processes magentservice.exe and wlrun.exe through Task Manager -> Processes (as shown below).




Set up on Over the Firewall Agent (Load Generator machine):

a. Go to agent machine (Load Generator machine).

b. Click Start –> Programs -> Mercury Performance Center -> Advanced Settings -> Agent Configuration



c. Check the options Enable Firewall Agent and Enable Terminal Services.




d. Click Settings button.





i. Set MI Listener Name to IP of MI listener machine.

ii. Set Local Machine Key to a symbolic identifier. For example, uap058_ofw.

e. To start the Performance Center agent as service, go to Command prompt and go to F:Program FilesMercuryPerformance Centerlaunch_servicebin folder in Load Generator machine (the drive may be different depending on, in which drive the Mercury Performance Center was installed. Now, run following commands in Command prompt.

To stop LoadRunner agent as service:

magentservice.exe – remove

To start LoadRunner agent as service:

magentservice.exe – install

To stop LoadRunner agent as process:

magentproc.exe – remove

To start LoadRunner agent as process:

magentproc.exe – install

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