The LoadRunner Enterprise provider collects metrics from a LoadRunner Enterprise instance and makes them available to Akamas.

Prerequisites

This section provides the minimum requirements that you should match before using the LoadRunnerEnterprise telemetry provider.

Supported versions

• LoadRunner Enterprise 12.60, 12.63 and 2020 SP3, 2022 and 2022 R1

• InfluxDB 1.7 and 1.8

Network requirements

• Port 8086 between Akamas VM to InfluxDB host, opened in both directions. This port is used to gather metrics.

Permissions

• The provider requires a user that can access InfluxDB.

• The user must have read permission on the database containing the LoadRunner metrics.

Supported component types

• Web Application

You can check LoadRunner provider metrics mapping to see how component-types metrics are extracted by this provider.

Workflow requirements

This section lists the workflow operators this provider depends on.

• LoadRunnerEnterprise operator

Setup the data source

To set up the integration between Loadrunner Enterprise and InfluxDB please follow the official Microfocus documentation. Akamas does not require any additional setup on the data source.

Components configuration

Akamas reasons in terms of a system to be optimized and in terms of parameters and metrics of components of that system. To understand the link between metrics collected from LoadRunnerEnterprise through InfluxDB and a specific component, the LoadRunnerEnterprise provider looks up some properties in the components of a system:

• loadrunnerenterprise

You can use this example to start building your component specification:

# Specification for a component, whose metrics should be collected by the Prometheus Provider
name: "WebApp1" # name of the component
description: "WebApp for payment services" # description of the component
properties:
  loadrunnerenterprise: ""

Create a telemetry instance

To create an instance of the LoadRunnerEnterprise provider, build a YAML file (instance.yml in this example) with the definition of the instance:

Then you can create the instance using the Akamas CLI:

Configuration options

When you create an instance of the LoadRunnerEnterprise provider, you should specify some configuration information to allow the provider to correctly extract and process metrics from Prometheus.

You can specify configuration information within the config part of the YAML of the instance definition.

Required properties

• address: The address of the InfluxDB instance, in the form of schema://address (i.e https://influxdb.mycompay.com)

• port: The InfluxDB port

• username: The username required to connect to InfluxDB.

• password: The password for the username

• database: The database name where LoadRunner metrics are stored

Telemetry instance reference

This table reports the reference for the config section within the definition of the LoadRunnerEnterprise provider instance:

Exported metrics

To install the LoadRunnerEnterprise provider, create a YAML file (called provider.yml in this example) with the definition of the provider:

#LoadRunnerEnterprise Telemetry Provider
name: LoadRunnerEnterprise
description: Telemetry Provider that enables to import of metrics from LoadRunner Enterprise through InfluxDB
dockerImage: 485790562880.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/akamas/telemetry-providers/lre-provider:3.2.0

Then you can install the provider using the Akamas CLI:

akamas install telemetry-provider provider.yml

The installed provider is shared with all users of your Akamas installation and can monitor many different systems, by configuring appropriate telemetry provider instances.