ANTS Load Not Registering in IIS Logs

njenney

OK, I have been messing around with this for a while and I cannot get it it work. I am running the latest version of ANTs Load on one server and capturing counters on another remote server. I am running a secure web-based app which has a .NET 2.0 framework, heavy AJAX front end and SQL Server 2005. I record a script and then run the load test and everything appears to be just fine and dandy. However, when I look in the IIS logs I do not see any activity. We also have a little cache manager utility which shows registered users and their cache in memory allotment and I do not see anything registering there either. Additionally, no database updates are being made. When I first record the script I see activity in the IIS logs, cache manager and DB so I know it is working when I manually test.

Any suggestions on next steps to troubleshoot this issue?

Thanks.

njenney

Brian Donahue

Hi,

The root of the problem is more than likely that ANTS Load never, ever supported Ajax. The script recorder only understood x-www-urlencoded post data and not raw XML.

I have got an internal, private update I can send to version 1.75 that may or may not work, depending on your implementation of AJAX. Basically, it records the post data in raw bytes if it cannot determine the post data encoding type, which works well for generic AJAX, but makes it slightly difficult to make changes to the test script, for instance, to replace any data with State Information.

If you would like the patch, please send me an email. Note that you need ANTS Load 1.75, so you may need to update the software first.

njenney

Thanks Brian. I sent you a note with my address. I will give it a shot and post my results.

njenney

Brian, I never received the patch. Can you resend? Thanks.

Brian Donahue

Hi,

I've uploaded it to the FTP site:

ftp://support.red-gate.com/Patches/ANTS ... 5Fixes.zip

njenney

Thanks. I will give it a try and let you know how it goes.

njenney

I moved the old DLLs off to a backup folder and then copied the new files to C:\Program Files\ANTS Load. When I launch the program I receive a 'couldn't execute assembly' error. When I click OK the system crashes.

ANTS Load 1.70.0 BUILD 10

Thanks.

Brian Donahue

Hi,

You need to have ANTS Load 1.75 as a prerequisite to this update: ftp://ftp.red-gate.com/OLD/Misc/ANTSLoad.exe
Sorry for any misunderstanding.