Jmeter - Run .jmx file through command line and get the summary report in a excel

Question

I am new to jmeter. I have the .jmx file containg all the required http samplers. I could run it throught the Jmeter UI using "Run-> Start" and view the result in the "Summary Report". I can then save the results to the .csv using "Save Table Data" button in "Summary Report".

Question is how can I achieve the same using command line.

Answer 1

JMeter can be launched in non-GUI mode as follows:

jmeter -n -t /path/to/your/test.jmx -l /path/to/results/file.jtl

You can set what would you like to see in result jtl file via playing with JMeter Properties.

See jmeter.properties file under /bin folder of your JMeter installation and look for those starting with

jmeter.save.saveservice.

Defaults are listed below:

#jmeter.save.saveservice.output_format=csv
#jmeter.save.saveservice.assertion_results_failure_message=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.assertion_results=none
#jmeter.save.saveservice.data_type=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.label=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.response_code=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.response_data=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.response_data.on_error=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.response_message=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.successful=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.thread_name=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.time=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.subresults=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.assertions=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.latency=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.samplerData=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.responseHeaders=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.requestHeaders=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.encoding=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.bytes=true
#jmeter.save.saveservice.url=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.filename=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.hostname=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.thread_counts=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.sample_count=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.idle_time=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.timestamp_format=ms
#jmeter.save.saveservice.timestamp_format=yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss.SSS
#jmeter.save.saveservice.default_delimiter=,
#jmeter.save.saveservice.default_delimiter=\t
#jmeter.save.saveservice.print_field_names=false
#jmeter.save.saveservice.xml_pi=<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../extras/jmeter-results-detail-report_21.xsl"?>
#jmeter.save.saveservice.base_prefix=~/
#jmeter.save.saveservice.autoflush=false

Uncomment the one you are interested in and set it's value to change the default. Another option is override property in user.properties file or provide it as a command-line argument using -J key as follows:

jmeter -Jjmeter.save.saveservice.print_field_names=true -n /path/to/your/test.jmx -l /path/to/results/file.jtl

See Apache JMeter Properties Customization Guide for more details on what can be done using JMeter Properties.

Answer 2

You can use this command,

jmeter -n -t /path to the script.jmx -l /path to save results with file name file.jtl

But if you really want to run a load test in a remote machine, you should be able to make it run eventhough you close the window. So we can use nohup to ignore the HUP (hangup) signal. So you can use this command as below.

nohup sh jmeter.sh -n -t /path to the script.jmx -l /path to save results with file name file.jtl &