Where on a remote workstation should I put a CSV-config file for distributed JMeter testing?

Question

I want to make JMeter distributed testing. It was said in the manual that first I should start jmeter-server on remote nodes, and then I should update jmeter.config and run jmeter on a master node.

I did all these steps. My test plan includes working with CSV-config files. If I test just from 1 (master) node - then everything works as a charm. But when I try distributed testing all tests fail. Some investigation showed that remote nodes send requests without substitution of ${..}-like parameters. Requests look like

POST data: 5|0|6|http://host.com/portal/|67D1C612DCF291DCD0F71AD15E404F37|host.ui.client.services.LoginService|login|java.lang.String/2004016611|${ADMIN_LOGIN}|1|2|3|4|3|5|5|5|6|6|1|

It's obvious that remote jmeter-server cannot find the CSV-file. Where should I put it?

P.S: I have machines with different OS (Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04).

Answer 1

The easiest way to resolve the multiple OS issue is to put the CSV file in the Jmeter BIN directory on all test machines, and do not reference the path in the CSV Data Set Config component.