[asterisk-users] How best to run a SIPp test on a remote host

[Patrick Wakano]

I've never worked with fabric nor pysipp, but if you want to run sipp in
background so you can log out from your remote server and leave the test
running, I suggest you can use screen. It works well for me.
Patrick Wakano

On Sat, 20 Oct. 2018, 01:55 Olivier, <oza.4h07 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm curently setting a lab environment for load testing an Asterisk
> instance.
>
> This environment includes:
> - a management workstation where I would like to run scripts and  store
> test reports
> - a box hosting SIPp
> - the Asterisk box I'm load testing (System Under Test)
> - an other Asterisk box that simply anwers and echoes incoming media
>
> The SIPp commande I'm currently using looks like:
> sipp -bg -nostdin  -trace_screen -screen_file
> /home/foobar/reports.d/campaign_123456789_1_1.txt -sf
> /home/foobar/custom_with_10_minutes_audio.xml 3.4.49.3 -i 3.4.58.206 -s
> 123456789 -r 1 -m 1 -d 60000
>
> Explainations:
> - Run in background mode (more on that later)
> - Last SIPp screen with successful/failed call counters saved in a file
> - SIPp reads a 10 minutes audio file and stops reading after 60000 ms (see
> -d parameter)
> - Media comes from SIPs, pass though System Under Test and then comes back
>
> 1. How can you run such "sipp -bg ..." command from management workstation
> on remote SIPp box ?
> I tried using Fabric (I'm discovering) but it always fails with a 99 exit
> code, as if SIPp/Fabric required a different options set.
>
> 2. This project pysipp [1] seems interesting.
> Has anyone tried it ?
> How can you get started ?
>
> 3. Suggestions ?
>
> Best regards
>
> [1] https://github.com/SIPp/pysipp
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