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- Your application server. You shouldn't run anything on this machine that you wouldn't have running on it in your proposed or actual production environment (if you are running anything else, including JMeter, you will be adding load to the server and thus tainting your results).
Wiki Markup One or more machines running jmeter-server (the \["JMeterEngine"\]). You want these machines to be reasonably close (network wise) to the application server. By "reasonably close" I mean on the same Ethernet segment or at least with no low speed links between them. The JMeter User Manual provides reasonable information about doing this (note however the typo - the third jar file is missing the all important ".jar" at the end of the line (this is fixed in cvs, but it won't appear on the site until it is next updated)).Wiki Markup A single machine running the JMeter GUI that you use to control the machines running the \["JMeterEngine"\]. \\
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- Eliminate the impact of slow network connections when you are not "close" to the application server.
- Execute more test threads than your local machine is capable of handling.
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How to run JMeter test plan programatically, such as from an Ant script?
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