Yes. I am guessing that must be what most users do; schedule a cron job that
invokes a script that invokes JMeter with "run now".
I was just exploring if there are other options since I'm new at JMeter.
--- On Mon, 10/5/09, Deepak Shetty <shet...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Deepak Shetty <shet...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ThreadGroup start and end time in date format
To: "JMeter Users List" <jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 8:53 PM
why not use the OS scheduling capabilities for these requirements?.
You need a way to startup jmeter anyway (irrespective of the threadgroup
scheduler)
regards
deepak
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The use case I'm trying to cover is "Let's run the test at 2am tonight".
> If a SimpleDateFormat is supported, then it's a bit more intuitive to pass
> in a human readable date than the calculated the difference (number of
> seconds) between now and 2am or the Unix Epoch time.
>
> Let me know if I'm missing something.
>
> --- On Mon, 10/5/09, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: sebb <seb...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: ThreadGroup start and end time in date format
> To: "JMeter Users List" <jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 7:32 PM
>
> On 05/10/2009, Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the clarification. So I am curious as to how to define a
> specific start time (as opposed to "now") in non-gui mode from a shell
> script.. I have managed to leverage the unix date command and calculated
> the epoch in ms that way, but it's a bit clunky, relying on the correct date
> format. Then I passed the calculated epoch into JMeter as a property
> defined in my test plan.
> >
> > Is this the best practice? How do other users do this (or everyone just
> uses "now") ?
> >
> > I was hoping there is something similar to a "--date" command line
> option accepting a SimpleDateFormat.
> >
> > Just want to make sure I didn't miss an obvious or more straight-forward
> solution.
>
> If you can easily calculate the time difference, why not use a
> property to define the startup delay, and pass that in instead?
>
> >
> > --- On Fri, 10/2/09, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: sebb <seb...@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: ThreadGroup start and end time in date format
> > To: "JMeter Users List" <jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> >
> > Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 9:50 PM
> >
> >
> > On 02/10/2009, Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Does this mean the timestamp format in jmeter.properties applies to
> both the csv output
> > > AND parsing a thread group's start_time property? This is what I
> have:
> >
> > No it doesn't apply to the start_time property.
> >
> > Sorry, I misread your original question.
> >
> > You can only use milliseconds in the JMX file.
> >
> > > jmeter.save.saveservice.timestamp_format=yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss
> > >
> > > and in my test plan:
> > > <stringProp
> name="ThreadGroup.start_time">${__P(submit_start,1254374051000)}</stringProp>
> > >
> > > But when I invoke jmeter:
> > > ../jmeter -n -t ./HelloWorld.jmx -l ./HelloWorld.jtl
> -Jsubmit_start="2009/10/02 13:42:11"
> > > An error occurred: Unknown arg: 13:42:11"
> > >
> > > Look like the error is caused by the space between the date and time
> eventhough the value is quoted.
> > >
> > > Is this possible or do I have to resort to epoch?
> > >
> > > --- On Fri, 10/2/09, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: sebb <seb...@gmail.com>
> > > Subject: Re: ThreadGroup start and end time in date format
> > > To: "JMeter Users List" <jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> > > Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 8:52 AM
> > >
> > >
> > > On 02/10/2009, Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > Let me clarify that the question is regarding defining the start
> and end time in the test plan (i.e. not in the gui).
> > > >
> > > > In my test plan:
> > > > <longProp
> name="ThreadGroup.start_time">1243889520000</longProp>
> > > > <longProp
> name="ThreadGroup.end_time">1243889499000</longProp>
> > > >
> > > > Can I use string for SimpleDateFormat instead?
> > >
> > > Not when using XML format. However, in CSV format you can, see
> > >
> > > jmeter.save.saveservice.timestamp
> > >
> > > > --- On Fri, 10/2/09, Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > From: Tech Newbie <tec...@yahoo.com>
> > > > Subject: ThreadGroup start and end time in date format
> > > > To: jmeter-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > > > Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 5:37 AM
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to specify thread group start and end time in
> SimpleDateFormat instead of epoch? Similar to how result timestamps support
> both formats.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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