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		<title>How to handle HTTP POSTs with a changing number of name-value pairs</title>
		<link>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/vugen-dynamic-post-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Moncrieff</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[HTTP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LoadRunner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VuGen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally you will find that you need to create a VuGen script for a web application which changes the number of name-value pairs which are sent with a POST request. This tech tip shows you how to handle this situation by dynamically constructing a POST body.

In the example below, you can see that the web_submit_data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VuGen String Comparison Behaviour</title>
		<link>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/string-comparison-behaviour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Moncrieff</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Tips]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[C]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[strcmp]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VuGen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who works with VuGen should know that they should compare strings using the standard C function strcmp(), rather than the equality operator (==).
In the example below, there are three string variables that each contain &#8220;hello world&#8221;. Comparing the strings using strcmp() shows that all the strings are the same, but comparing them using &#8220;==&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Persistent Data in VuGen with MySQL</title>
		<link>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/vugen-with-mysql/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/vugen-with-mysql/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Wilton</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Tips]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MySQL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SQL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VuGen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jds.net.au/?p=565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the main drawbacks with VuGen is the inability to easily store data for later retrieval, and the lack of interscript communication. I had this exact problem on a recent assignment, the problem was that the business process involved a batch process that needed to run before the rest of the business process could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checking open ports with Telnet</title>
		<link>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/checking-open-ports-with-telnet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/checking-open-ports-with-telnet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Moncrieff</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Tips]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[firewalls]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[telnet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When requesting that firewall ports be opened, it is useful to be able to check that they really have been opened using the simplest method possible. Using a telnet client is the perfect way to do this, as it comes standard on Windows and all Unix-like systems.

Telnet will create a raw TCP connection to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monitoring Tomcat with LoadRunner</title>
		<link>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/monitoring-tomcat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/monitoring-tomcat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Moncrieff</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Tips]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LoadRunner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[monitoring]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tomcat]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VuGen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LoadRunner does not come with a monitor for Tomcat. Fortunately, you can easily create one in about 5 minutes&#8230;

Tomcat exposes metrics related to JVM memory and Servlet container threads (and some other useful information) on a Status page at &#60;Server Name&#62;/manager (ask your Tomcat admin to enable it).

Create a standard web vuser script which loads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing VMWare error: &#8220;Unable to add virtual machine to the inventory&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/unable-to-add-virtual-machine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/unable-to-add-virtual-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reinhardt Moller</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Tips]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VMWare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jds.net.au/?p=529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When trying to load a VMWare image you may be presented with an error message like this:


To get around this do the following:
Navigate to the directory that contains the image files. One of these will have an extension of “.vmx”. Open this with notepad. At the top you will find a parameter with the name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WDiff Replacement for VuGen</title>
		<link>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/wdiff-replacement-for-vugen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/wdiff-replacement-for-vugen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reinhardt Moller</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Tips]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VuGen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[WDiff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jds.net.au/?p=322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the quick ways to identify those areas in a VuGen script that requires correlation is to record it twice and manually compare the two scripts. Built in to VuGen is the tool WDiff, a basic file comparison tool. However, I have found that it is rather limiting in what it can do, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why your BPM scripts should use Download Filters</title>
		<link>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/vugen-download-filters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/vugen-download-filters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Moncrieff</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Tips]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[BPM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[download filters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VuGen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jds.net.au/?p=288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently JDS was given a good reminder of why VuGen&#8217;s Download Filters are an important product feature. 
Someone created a BPM script to monitor the performance and availability of the JDS website.
Suddenly our website traffic looked like this on Google Analytics&#8230;


The VuGen script was requesting http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif and http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js each time it ran, which was polluting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Querying Your Web Server Logs</title>
		<link>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/sql-queries-for-web-server-logs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/sql-queries-for-web-server-logs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Moncrieff</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Tips]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IIS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SQL Server]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[W3C]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jds.net.au/?p=205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;ve imported your web server logs into a database, and you&#8217;re ready to start extracting useful information from them.
If your logs are in W3C Extended Log Format, you may have some or all of the following columns available to you (depending on your logging configuration)&#8230;


[date] - The date of the request in yyyy-mm-dd format. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Importing IIS Logs into SQL Server</title>
		<link>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/importing-iis-logs-into-sql-server/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jds.net.au/tech-tips/importing-iis-logs-into-sql-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Moncrieff</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tech Tips]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[log analysis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SQL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SQL Server]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jds.net.au/?p=203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are preparing to do some serious analysis of your web server logs, it makes sense to transfer the logs to a database, so that you can easily extract information by running SQL queries. This article shows how to easily import IIS logs into MS SQL Server.

IIS logs each web server hit as a [...]]]></description>
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