Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Loadrunner Installation and Configuration

. I recommend that you put downloaded LoadRunner installation files and patches to a separate media such as a CD or USB drive. Then mark those files as read-only.
. Disable your anti-virus software (Symantec, McAfee, etc.) before invoking on installers.
. Virus Detection engines (such as Hauri versions since May 18) may find that program regtlb.exe (which registers/unregisters type libraries) to contain a "virus" they call "Backdoor.Win32.PoeBot.15872". Automatic repair by the virus remover will break those files.
The LR box comes with two CD's and this installation manual. Separate installation manuals are available for the Controller and Analysis modules.
The Windows CD autostarts to this initial screen for v7.8 and this initial screen for v8.0.
You can install just a single component (such as VuGen) by (ironically) selecting "Full install" and then the "Custom" option to check the specific components to install. However, due to a strange bug with v8.0, before you do that, first install the Load Generator, then return to install "custom" components.
The UNIX CD installs only the Load Generator (not the Controller or VuGen) on UNIX machines because the Controller and VuGen only run on Windows machines.
Zero fill machine names to t001, ... t010, etc. The LR Controller sorts machines named t1, t2, ... t10 as t1, t10, t2.

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