LoadRunnerEnteprise Operator

This page introduces the LoadRunnerEnterprise operator, a workflow operator that allows piloting performance tests on a target system by leveraging Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise (formerly known as Performance Center).

Prerequisites

This section provides the minimum requirements that you should meet to use this operator.

Supported versions

• Micro Focus Performance Center 12.60 or 12.63

• LoadRunner Enterprise 2020 SP3

Configuration options

When you define a task that uses the LoadRunnerEnterprise operator you should specify some configuration information to allow the operator to connect to LoadRunner Enterprise and execute a provided test scenario.

You can specify configuration information within the arguments that are part of a task in the YAML of the definition of a workflow.

You can avoid specifying each configuration information at the task level, by including a component property with the name of a component; in this way, the operator will take any configuration information from the properties of the referenced component

Operator arguments

This table reports the configuration reference for the arguments section

Field	Type	Value Restrictions	Required	Dafault	Description
address	String	A valid URL I.e. http://loadrunner-enterprise.yourdomain.com	Yes	-	The information required to connect to LoadRunner Enterprise.
username	String	-	Yes	-	The username used to connect to LoadRunner Enterprise
password	String	-	Yes	-	The password for the specified user
tenantID	String	-	No	-	The id of the tenant (Only for LR2020)
domain	String	-	Yes		The Domain of your load test projects.
project	String	-	Yes		The Project name of your load test projects
testId	Number	-	Yes		The id of the load test. See here below how to retrieve this from LoadRunner.
testSet	String	-	Yes	-	The name of the TestSet. See here below how to retrieve this from LoadRunner.
timeSlot	String	A number followed by the time unit. Values must be multiple of 15m and greater then 30m Valid units are: m: minutes h: hours	Yes	-	The reserved time slot for the test. Examples: 1h 45m 1h30m
component	String	A valid component name	No	-	The name of the component from which the operator will take its configuration options
pollingInterval	Number	A positive integer number	No	30	The frequency (in seconds) of at witch Akamas checks for the load test status
verifySSL	String	True, False	No	True	Wether to validate the certificate provided by the LRE server when using an https connection

How to retrieve the testId value

The following screenshot from Performance Center shows the testId value highlighted.

How to retrieve the testSet value

The following screenshot from Performance Center shows the testSet name highlighted.

How to retrieve the testId value from LoadRunner Enterprise

URL: http://<LRE address>/Loadtest/

then test management from the main menu

Examples

A simple performance test

name: test
operator: LoadRunnerEnterprise
arguments:
  address: "http://lr-pc.dev.akamas.io"
  username: akamas
  password: akamas
  tenantID: cf59c1a8-ad2d-4c9a-9324-edadaae5b8b9
  domain: AKAMASDOMAIN
  project: akamasproject
  testId: 1
  testSet: testsetname
  timeSlot: '30m'