The TCP Sampler opens a TCP/IP connection to the specified server. It then sends the text, and waits for a response.
You can test any Server working over TCP/IP. But In this example I have tested this sampler with a TCP server made in C#. You can download the TCP server here.
http://alokranjan.freehostia.com/codes/TCP%20Server.zip
Steps:
1. Run the TCP server on your system and create a new Test case in Jmeter. The server looks like this before any client connections.
2. Add a TCP sampler to the thread group. Fill the fields as follows-
Server name or IP: Localhost
Check reuse connection
Port number: 13000
Timeout: 200
Check Set Nodelay
Text to send: This is the text i hav sent to tcp server
Since there is no login request for the server we leave the username and password field blank.
3. Add a listener (View Results tree) and run the test.
The sampler result tab gives the response code and load time. The response data shows the data sent by the Server.
You can also check the server whether it has sent the data or not.
Filed under: Samplers
Friends iam getting this below error while running TCP sampler
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.util.JMeterUtils: Setting Locale to en_US
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: Loading user properties from: C:\Documents and Settings\ds111256\Desktop\jmeter-2.3.2\bin\user.properties
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: Loading system properties from: C:\Documents and Settings\ds111256\Desktop\jmeter-2.3.2\bin\system.properties
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: Copyright (c) 1998-2008 The Apache Software Foundation
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: Version 2.3.2 r665936
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: java.version=1.6.0_26
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: java.vm.name=Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: os.name=Windows XP
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: os.arch=x86
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: os.version=5.1
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: file.encoding=Cp1252
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: Default Locale=English (United States)
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: JMeter Locale=English (United States)
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: JMeterHome=C:\Documents and Settings\ds111256\Desktop\jmeter-2.3.2
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: user.dir =C:\Documents and Settings\ds111256\Desktop\jmeter-2.3.2\bin
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: PWD =C:\Documents and Settings\ds111256\Desktop\jmeter-2.3.2\bin
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: IP: 192.168.1.212 Name: BCTCW-Deepakumar FullName: BCTCW-Deepakumar.bctchn.local
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.JMeter: Loaded icon properties from org/apache/jmeter/images/icon.properties
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.engine.util.CompoundVariable: Note: Function class names must contain the string: ‘.functions.’
2011/11/29 14:44:41 INFO – jmeter.engine.util.CompoundVariable: Note: Function class names must not contain the string: ‘.gui.’
2011/11/29 14:44:42 INFO – jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase: Cannot find .className property for htmlParser, using default
2011/11/29 14:44:42 INFO – jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase: Parser for text/html is
2011/11/29 14:44:42 INFO – jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase: Parser for application/xhtml+xml is
2011/11/29 14:44:42 INFO – jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase: Parser for application/xml is
2011/11/29 14:44:42 INFO – jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase: Parser for text/xml is
2011/11/29 14:44:42 INFO – jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase: Parser for text/vnd.wap.wml is org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.parser.RegexpHTMLParser
2011/11/29 14:44:42 INFO – jmeter.gui.util.MenuFactory: Skipping org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.modifier.gui.ParamModifierGui
2011/11/29 14:44:42 INFO – jmeter.gui.util.MenuFactory: Skipping org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.modifier.gui.UserParameterModifierGui
2011/11/29 14:44:42 INFO – jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSampler: Maximum connection retries = 10
2011/11/29 14:44:42 WARN – jmeter.gui.util.MenuFactory: Missing jar? Could not create org.apache.jmeter.visualizers.MailerVisualizer. java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/mail/MessagingException
2011/11/29 14:44:42 INFO – jmeter.samplers.SampleResult: Note: Sample TimeStamps are START times
2011/11/29 14:44:42 INFO – jmeter.samplers.SampleResult: sampleresult.default.encoding is set to ISO-8859-1
2011/11/29 14:44:47 INFO – jmeter.engine.ClientJMeterEngine: about to run remote test
2011/11/29 14:44:47 INFO – jmeter.engine.ClientJMeterEngine: done initiating run command
2011/11/29 14:44:47 INFO – jmeter.engine.ClientJMeterEngine: running clientengine run method
2011/11/29 14:44:47 INFO – jmeter.engine.ClientJMeterEngine: sent host =192.168.0.62
2011/11/29 14:44:47 INFO – jmeter.engine.ClientJMeterEngine: sent test
2011/11/29 14:44:47 INFO – jmeter.engine.ClientJMeterEngine: sent run command
2011/11/29 14:44:47 INFO – jmeter.gui.util.JMeterMenuBar: setRunning(true,192.168.0.62)
2011/11/29 14:53:23 INFO – jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Listeners will be started after enabling running version
2011/11/29 14:53:23 INFO – jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: To revert to the earlier behaviour, define jmeterengine.startlistenerslater=false
2011/11/29 14:53:23 INFO – jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Running the test!
2011/11/29 14:53:23 INFO – jmeter.gui.util.JMeterMenuBar: setRunning(true,*local*)
2011/11/29 14:53:23 INFO – jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Starting 1 threads for group Thread Group. Ramp up = 1.
2011/11/29 14:53:23 INFO – jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Continue on error
2011/11/29 14:53:23 INFO – jmeter.threads.JMeterThread: jmeterthread.startearlier=false (see jmeter.properties)
2011/11/29 14:53:23 INFO – jmeter.threads.JMeterThread: Running PostProcessors in forward order
2011/11/29 14:53:23 INFO – jmeter.threads.JMeterThread: Thread Thread Group 1-1 started
2011/11/29 14:53:54 INFO – jmeter.threads.JMeterThread: Thread Thread Group 1-1 is done
2011/11/29 14:53:54 INFO – jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Ending thread Thread Group 1-1
2011/11/29 14:53:54 INFO – jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Stopping test
2011/11/29 14:53:54 INFO – jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Notifying test listeners of end of test
2011/11/29 14:53:54 INFO – jmeter.services.FileServer: Default base=C:\Documents and Settings\ds111256\Desktop\jmeter-2.3.2\bin
2011/11/29 14:53:54 INFO – jmeter.gui.util.JMeterMenuBar: setRunning(false,*local*)
2011/11/29 14:53:54 INFO – jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Test has ended
I have been looking for a practical guide to TCP sampler, its rarely used and hence not covered much. Thanks for putting this post, You saved me a ton of time. I had to use TCP as i had to send 100-1000 parameters in the request and using HTTP Sampler would have killed my time.
thanks again