Tsung Configuration File

huberflores_example.xml

<!-- 
author Huber Flores
 -->

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE tsung SYSTEM "/usr/share/tsung/tsung-1.0.dtd">
<tsung loglevel="notice" version="1.0">

  <!-- Client side setup -->
  <clients>
    <client host="tsung-node1" weight="1" maxusers="500">
       <ip value="172.17.x.x"></ip>
    </client>

    <client host="tsung-node2" weight="1" maxusers="500">
       <ip value="172.17.x.x"></ip>
    </client>

    <client host="tsung-node3" weight="1" maxusers="500">
       <ip value="172.17.x.x"></ip>
    </client>
  </clients>

  <!-- Server side setup -->
<servers>
  <server host="172.17.x.x" port="80" type="tcp"></server>
</servers>

  <!-- to start os monitoring (cpu, network, memory). Use an erlang
  agent on the remote machine or SNMP. erlang is the default -->
  <monitoring>
    <monitor host="myserver" type="snmp"></monitor>
  </monitoring>

  <load>
  <!-- several arrival phases can be set: for each phase, you can set
  the mean inter-arrival time between new clients and the phase
  duration -->
   <arrivalphase phase="1" duration="2" unit="second">
     <users interarrival="0.00125" unit="second"></users>
   </arrivalphase>


  </load>

  <options>
   <option type="ts_http" name="user_agent">
    <user_agent probability="80">Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Galeon/1.3.21</user_agent>
    <user_agent probability="20">Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; fr-FR; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4</user_agent>
 </option>
  </options>

  <!-- start a session for a http user. the probability is the
  frequency of this type os session. The sum of all session's
  probabilities must be 100 -->

 <sessions>
   <session name='zompopo' probability='100'  type='ts_http'>
    <request><http url='/Uploader/uimage' version='1.1'  contents_from_file='/root/.tsung/tsung_recorder20110713-15:50-1.bin' content_type='multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------12060338813221352851214549942' method='POST'></http></request>
   </session>

 </sessions>

</tsung>

where this file (contents_from_file='/root/.tsung/tsung_recorder20110713-15:50-1.bin') come from?

The request of this configuration file aimed to upload a file to a server (/Uploader/uimage). Thus, the bin file "tsung_recorder20110713-15:50-1.bin" is created by tsung recorder tool, in the recording process of the request as part of its XML representation.