Monitor external REST/SOAP Web Services using synthetic monitoring

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Open Jmeter GUI by running the jmeter.bat script from the directory <Aplicare_Home_Directory>\bin\jakarta-jmeter\bin

Create a Thread Group with 1 user, 1 loop count and 1 Ramp-up seconds

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Under Thread Group create Http Header Manager by right click Thread Group -> Add -> Config Element -> Http Header Manager

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Add the necessary headers

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Then, add Http Request by right click Thread Group -> Add -> Sampler -> Http Request

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Enter valid details of the webservice protocol, ip, port, path, body or params, method etc.

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Now login applicare dashboard and navigate to User Experience -> Synthetic User Experience Analyzer-> Settings and then click on New button.

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In the config screen enter a name and select Jmeter Script from Type dropdown. In Node dropdown select the server from which the request has to be made. Then select the Jmeter script to upload and click on the Apply button.

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Now synthetic monitor will starts to run and we will see the data in few mins.

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