Wiki Page: How do I overcome the error "PDH: 3000 - The specified object is...
The SilkPerformer performance counters are version specific in name, e.g. SilkPerformer 6.5 Controller. Therefore, this error can be reported if: The measure used references a counter from a specific...
View ArticleWiki Page: How do I prevent getting Sentinel service error message in my...
For example: Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7001 Date: **/**/20** Time: *:**:** PM User: N/A Computer: CLIENT1 Description: The Sentinel service...
View ArticleWiki Page: How do I randomize connection speed and browser simulation in...
Below is example code of you may randomize the connection speed and browser per user. You declare a random variable and define the probability of each of the pre-defined constants. In this example,...
View ArticleWiki Page: How do I prevent SilkPerformer 2007 from crashing when I use the...
In SilkPerformer 2007 if you right click on a BDF script and select either the "New Transaction" or "New Function" wizard from the menu then SilkPerformer will crash and report the following error...
View ArticleWiki Page: I have Penicillin AntiVirus software installed on my machine and...
Please disable the Penicillin AntiVirus Software service on the machine then try to record again. Typically the software which causes conflicts with the Silk Performer recorder either hooks into the...
View ArticleWiki Page: I have set the installation directory of the Java Virtual Machine...
The Silk Performer System Settings and the Active Profile settings, offer the same Java configuration options. The difference is that the system setting (SETTINGS | SYSTEM | JAVA) is used as a...
View ArticleWiki Page: I have Zoftech Spectacle software installed on my machine and when...
Please disable the Zoftech Spectacle service on the machine then try to record again. Typically the software which causes conflicts with the Silk Performer recorder either hooks into the application...
View ArticleWiki Page: Identify the Citrix Client version being used.
In the Silk Performer replay .log search for the CitrixInit API call - CitrixInit. For example; CitrixInit(800, 600) { Resolution: 800 x 600 Mode: 0 Client identification: 1-3- 8.00.24737 -Citrix...
View ArticleWiki Page: I upgraded my controller and I am seeing this error when running...
When you upgrade the MMC to a new version of the software e.g. from SP6.0 to SP6.0.1, it is always advisable to upgrade the agent machines to the same version as the SilkPerformer controller before...
View ArticleWiki Page: If a certain condition is met how can I send an email using my...
If you wish to use a SilkPerformer script to send an email under a certain condition, one way to do this would be using an Event Handler and ‘WebSmtp’ functions. See the following showing how these...
View ArticleWiki Page: If a server resets a connection, is the connection registered as a...
The answer is Yes, in order to verify this you can do the following: Create a simple script containing one WebUrl request, and then run a 50 virtual user loadtest - Queuing workload so that each...
View ArticleWiki Page: If functions are imported from an external DLL into a BDL script,...
This depends on the value set for running multiple users per process. This can be checked under SETTINGS | SYSTEM | WORKBENCH | CONTROL | Virtual Users Per Process. Assuming that this value is set...
View ArticleWiki Page: If I am unable to monitor a Server using the SSH.sep SilkEssential...
Open the SilkEssential package (SSH.sep) using Winzip and extract the contents. Once you have done this you will find an executable called "Plink.exe", this is a command-line interface to the SSH...
View ArticleWiki Page: If I delete all the installed SNMP files, will SilkPerformer run...
When performing a security sweep on a system, sometimes some security applications may pick up some SNMP files to indicate that those files could be detrimental to your system so they have to be...
View ArticleWiki Page: If I do not have SilkMeter installed on my local installation of...
You can check how many licenses are available from on your remote SilkMeter Server by implementing the following steps: 1) Create a batch file on the remote Server – which will check the number of...
View ArticleWiki Page: If I encounter an unhandled Win32 exception in SilkPerformer why...
This occurs if the default Windows debugging tool is set to "Visual Studio" debugger. Originally Dr Watson is the default tool. To restore it back to DrWatson: 1. Go to Start, click Run, type cmd, and...
View ArticleWiki Page: If I have multiple profiles created how do I select a particular...
When you select to Run a loadtest, you will notice that a profile has been assigned to the Script/Usergroup, for example see the Workload Configuration screenshot below: You cannot change the profile...
View ArticleWiki Page: If I enter a relative start time greater than 24 hours why does...
The time is displayed in the monitor window in an hh:mm:ss format therefore it cannot display anything greater than 24 hours. Therefore when you enter, for example 38 hours, you will start counting...
View ArticleWiki Page: If I have one registry key that needs to have differing values how...
If the above mentioned registry key has additional entries other than qaphooks.dll the SilkPerformer recorder will display the error below and you will not be able to proceed with recording a test...
View ArticleWiki Page: If I use the WapHeaderAdd function to set a request header, why...
This issue was resolved in Silk Performer 7.0. The reason for the issue is that the value parameter of your header contains a colon (:) , and as a result SilkPerformer will return more than one...
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