Monitoring SOA Suite while testing

In this recipe, we'll look at tying together running tests that generate larger loads with starting points for monitoring SOA composite performance.

Getting ready

You will need to install Oracle SOA Suite 11g for this recipe with the Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control console.

You'll need to complete the Installing Apache JMeter recipe, deploy the test composite available from the book website to a SOA Suite server, have a working test plan as in the Creating a web service test using JMeter recipe, and have access to the Enterprise Manager and WebLogic web consoles.

How to do it…

These steps will show you some basic monitoring that can be performed on SOA Suite while tests are running:

1. Load the sample JMeter for this chapter (or create your own). In the JMeter test, select Test Users Thread Group. Set Number of users (Threads) to a higher value than 1. As a guide, if the host running this test is powerful, then try 100, otherwise start with a value...