JMeter distributed testing and command line parameters

Question

I have been using JMeter parameters to specify test attributes like testduration, rampup period etc for load test. I specify these parameters in shell script and it looks like this -

JMETER_PATH="/home/<user>/apache-jmeter-2.13/bin/jmeter.sh"
${JMETER_PATH} \   
-Jjmeter.save.saveservice.output_format=csv \
-Jjmeter.save.saveservice.response_data.on_error=true \
-Jjmeter.save.saveservice.print_field_names=true \    
-JCUSTOMERS_THREADS=1 \
-JGTI_THREADS=1 \
// Some more properties

Everything goes good here.

Now I added distributed testing and modified above script with JMeter Server related info. Hence new script looks as -

JMETER_PATH="/home/<user>/apache-jmeter-2.13/bin/jmeter.sh"
${JMETER_PATH} \
-Jjmeter.save.saveservice.output_format=csv \
-Jjmeter.save.saveservice.response_data.on_error=true \
-Jjmeter.save.saveservice.print_field_names=true \
-Jsample_variables=counter,accessToken \
-JCUSTOMERS_THREADS=1 \
-JGTI_THREADS=1 \
// Some more properties
-n \
-R     127.0.0.1:24001,127.0.0.1:24002,127.0.0.1:24003,127.0.0.1:24004,127.0.0.1:24005,127.0.0.1:24006,127.0.0.1:24007,127.0.0.1:24008,127.0.0.1:24009,12$
-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=127.0.0.1 \

Distributed test runs well but test does not take parameters specified in script above into consideration rather it takes the default value from JMeter test plan -

Did I mess up any configuration?

Answer 1

Use -G instead of -J for properties to be sent to remote machines as well. -J is local only.

-D[prop_name]=[value] - defines a java system property value.
-J[prop name]=[value] - defines a local JMeter property.
-G[prop name]=[value] - defines a JMeter property to be sent to all remote servers.
-G[propertyfile] - defines a file containing JMeter properties to be sent to all remote servers.

From here