Deploy with on-premises LGs

1. Click Load distribution in the sidebar and select the On-premises tab.

2. Click + Add from Assets to select the load generators for your test, or * Create to add a new load generator. The load generator is added to the grid, showing its name, OS, connectivity status, and access key.

3. If required, manage the on-premises load generators in the list:

   • Click Refresh to check the current connectivity status of the selected on-premises load generator.

   • Click Edit to manage the details of the load generator machine. For details, see Load generator assets.

   • Click Delete to remove the selected load generators. This action removes the on-premises load generators from the test but not from the OpenText Core Performance Engineering assets.

   • Click a column header to sort by that value.

4. Select an assignment method in the load test settings: Simple or Advanced. To use this capability, the Enable manual Vuser distribution for on-premises load generators option must be selected in the Test settings page. For details, see Configure test settings.

   For information about the scheduling modes, see Load test profiles.

   Note: If you change the location of a script that is already assigned to a load generator, the script is automatically unassigned from the load generator.

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   Assigning Vusers to load generators

   OpenText Core Performance Engineering lets you assign the number of Vusers per load generator, manually or automatically.

   To manually assign the number of Vusers:

   1. Click Load distribution in the sidebar and select the On-premises tab.

   2. Select the relevant load generator.

   3. Enter the number of Vusers to assign in the box adjacent to the script name.

   Note: Make sure that the number of Vusers that you assign to your script matches the total number of Vusers in your load test. For example, if the script has 500 Vusers, you must manually assign all 500. In addition, the number of Vusers defined in your test must not exceed the maximum number of Vusers defined in your Vuser license.

   To automatically assign an equal amount of Vusers to your on-premises load generators:

   1. Open the load test's Load distribution page and go to the On-premises tab.

   2. Click Distribute evenly. OpenText Core Performance Engineering automatically distributes Vusers evenly over all assigned on-premises load generators, according to the script assignment configured in the test.

      

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   Applying simple assignment

   With the Simple assignment method, you indicate which load test scripts run on which on-premises load generators.

   In the Load distribution > On-premises page, the Assigned Scripts pane shows the scripts assigned to the selected load generator.

   

   Click + Select scripts to assign or unassign scripts to the selected load generator. To assign a new script, select it and click OK. To unassign a script, cancel its selection and click OK.

   

   Note: When using the Simple assignment method, you can only assign scripts of the same type to a load generator. If a script is already assigned to a selected load generator, only scripts of the same type are enabled for assigning. Scripts of other types are unavailable.

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   Applying advanced assignment

   When using the Advanced assignment method, you can assign multiple scripts of different types to a load generator. This gives you full control over how Vusers from different protocols are distributed.

   

   You can also set the number of Vusers per script to run on specific on-premises load generators. Before setting the number of Vusers, make sure to assign each script to a load generator, as described in Applying simple assignment.

   After you have assigned the scripts, set the number of Vusers either manually or automatically. For details, see Assigning Vusers to load generators.

   Note:  

   • If multiple protocols have been assigned to a load generator, and you switch from Advanced to Simple mode, all assignments for that load generator are cleared.

   • If advanced scheduling is enabled for on-premises scripts, and the total Vuser ramp up is more than the entitled capacity of the license, advanced assignment will not work.

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Viewing assigned Vusers

To see the number of Vusers assigned per script, click + Select scripts and refer to the Vusers column.

When assigning multiple scripts of different types to a load generator, hover over the Vusers capacity text to display the capacity and distribution ratio for each script type.