Adding a performance agent to a project

If you have performance tests that distribute workload across different workstations or Accelerated Functional Testing (AFT) Suites that need to run on different platforms and browsers, you can add HCL OneTest Performance Agents to your projects to run tests on remote workstations.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

About this task

Only you can add or remove a performance agent that you own from the project. However, any member of your project with the permission to run the tests can initiate the run of test assets that are associated with the performance agent.

Procedure

  1. Log in to HCL OneTest Server.

    The team space that contains your project is displayed.

  2. Open your project, and then click Infrastructure > Agents and Intercepts.

    The Agents and Intercepts page is displayed.

  3. Click Add > Add agent.
    The performance agents that you configured with your user token are displayed.
    Note: You can add the performance agents that you own and that are in the Ready state. You can add any number of performance agents to your project.
  4. Select the performance agents that you want to use in the project, and then click Add.

    The performance agents that you added to the project are displayed.

  5. Perform the following steps to view details and capabilities of the performance agents:
    1. Expand the performance agent to view the details panel.
      You can find the following details of the performance agent displayed:
      Parameter Description
      Version The version of the installed performance agent.
      Address The IP address of the computer on which the performance agent is installed.
      License type The license type that is enabled for you to use the performance agent.
      Load generation service The status of the performance agent whether it can be used for load generation service.
      Last contact The time of the last contact with the performance agent by HCL OneTest Server.
    2. Expand the capabilities panel to view the system and application capabilities.
      You can find the following capabilities of the performance agent displayed:
      Capabilities Description
      System capabilities Architecture The architecture of the CPU processor of the computer on which the performance agent is installed.
      MAC Address The MAC address of the computer on which the performance agent is installed.
      Operating system The operating system of the computer on which the performance agent is installed.
      RAM The memory that is allotted to RAM in the computer on which the performance agent is installed.
      Application capabilities Browser The browsers along with their version that are installed on the computer on which the agent is installed.
      User Defined capabilities User Defined The capabilities that you add for a performance agent. You can also tag a performance agent so that you can identify the performance agent to select as a location.
    3. Check for the status of the performance agent from the Status column.
      Note: You can add performance agents that are in any state to the project.

Results

You have added remote performance agents to your project and viewed the performance agent capabilities that is displayed for each agent that you own.

What to do next

You can perform any of the following tasks:
  • Run the tests on the performance agent that is added to the project from the Execution page. See Test run configurations.
  • Define the capabilities that you want to add, and then view, edit, or delete the capabilities that you defined for the performance agents in your project. See Working with agent capabilities.