Command line profiling of IIS website

Narmatha

Hi,

We are trying to automate the process of profiling a website using Performance profiler from command line.

RedGate.Profiler.UI.exe /project:DC-AfterImproments.app6 /verbose /methodLevel /onlyWithSource /force /timeout:60  /htmlreport:NewResults.summary.html

When I execute this, the profiler application opens and does not start profiling immediately. Instead, it waits for the user to provide the url for the website to be profiled and click on the 'profile' button. The project name provided for the /project argument is the project to be profiled.

Can you please let me know how to automate the profile process

dom.smith

Hi,

To use command line profiling, you need to use Profile.exe, not RedGate.Profiler.UI.exe

Narmatha

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.
But when the profiler is trying to start down, it throws an error. And teh results are not written

C:\Program Files\Red Gate\ANTS Performance Profiler 6>Profile.exe /project:test
app6 /verbose /methodLevel /onlyWithSource /force /timeout:60 /htmlreport:NewR
sults1.summary.html
ANTS Performance Profiler Command Line Utility V6.1.0.119
==============================================================================
Copyright c Red Gate Software Ltd 2010


== Initialising profiler

log4net:WARN XmlHierarchyConfigurator: Unable to set property [securityContext]
on object [log4net.Appender.FileAppender] using value [log4net.Util.NullSecurit
Context.Instance] (with acceptable conversion types)
Using the settings from the project file 'test.app6'
Preparing session
Starting IIS Profiling Host
Initializing ...
Stopping W3SVC ...
Error while starting IIS
Error while starting IIS
Error while trying to launch the application process

Exception
=========

RedGate.Profiler.Engine.Exceptions.CannotStartSessionException:
Could not start IIS.
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at ↓☼♣.¶?☻.►‼(Licence )
at ↓☼♣.¶?☻.??♥(String[] )

Caused by RedGate.Profiler.Engine.Exceptions.CannotStartIisSessionException:
Could not start IIS.
at ?§♣.◄↑♣.§↔♣()
at ?§♣.↑▬♣.Launch()

Caused by RedGate.Profiler.Engine.Exceptions.CannotStartIisSessionException:
Error stopping W3SVC
at ?→►.↓?►.??♥()
at ?§♣.↑▬♣.??♥(↔←► )
at ?§♣.◄↑♣.§↔♣()

Caused by RedGate.Profiler.Engine.Startup.IIS.IISException:
Error stopping W3SVC
at ↔▬♣.?▬♣.☺▲♣()
at ↔▬♣.?▬♣.StartProfilingIIS(String , String )
at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.Startup.IIS.IISStarter`1.StartProfilingIIS(String
currentUserName, String subprocessVariableValue)
at ?→►.↓?►.??♥()

Caused by RedGate.Profiler.Engine.Startup.IIS.ServiceUtilitiesException:
Timed out starting 'W3SVC'
at ▬↨♣.?↨♣.¶⌂♣(String )
at ↔▬♣.?▬♣.☺▲♣()

Brian Donahue

From the messages I would say that your project specifies the "profile on original port" option, which causes an IIS restart and doesn't enable you to profile on the original port anyway unless IIS is not running.

On IIS v6 and up, the way that ANTS Profiler starts a worker process requires a TCP port that is not in use.