Installation

Supported Platforms

Web Performance Load Tester is supported and tested on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. It should also work on most other modern Windows versions.

note: Installation of the Load Engine is supported on Windows, Linux and Solaris. Installation of the Server Agent is supported on Windows, Linux, and AIX.

Installation Notes

For Linux stand-alone installations, do not install the application at the top level directory (at "/"). There is a known issue with the install application when this directory is used.
For any installation, ensure that the directory the application is being installed in is not a read-only directory to the users of the application. The application will not start properly when this occurs.
For stand-alone installations, do not install Web Performance Load Tester and Web Performance Load Engine in the same directory.

Installation steps

Download the software from http://webperformance.com/download
On Windows, run the installer and follow the wizard
On Linux/Unix with a GUI, run the installer and follow the wizard
On Linux/Unix from a console, run the installer with the "-i console" option.

Load Engine and Server Agent Installation

Load Engine installation instructions

Server Agent installation instructions