JMeter - Loopback address error when launching jmeter-server on Linux

Question

I\'m trying to set up a distributed load testing environment using JMeter. I need to set up the remote clients using something portable like a Linux Live CD, but whenever I att

Answer 1

In latest version, you can run your script with:

./jmeter-server -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with this server's IP address, i.e., the IP address that the controlling jmeter machine will use to connect to this server.

Answer 2

You can edit jmeter.server file to add:

RMI_HOST_DEF=-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

This solved mine problem. You can try to check this page for more details.

Answer 3

Looks like Glen was right on the money with his comment.

Not sure is this helps but I found a bug which seems to contain a patch for this issue.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jakarta-jmeter/+bug/589042

Thanks again, Glen!
(If you decide to make it into an actual answer, I'll be sure to accept it!)

Answer 4

Change your hostname from localhost to your right ip address.

1. Check your hostname

   hostname

2. Check your internet ip address

   ifconfig

3. Add this line to /etc/hosts

   your_ip_address your_hostname

4. Comment hostname which assigned localhost in /etc/hosts

Answer 5

I was able to get it to start after setting this environment variable:

export RMI_HOST_DEF=-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

Also have downloaded jmeter 2.8 from here: http://archive.apache.org/dist/jmeter/binaries/

Ubuntu apt-get version is 2.3.4