Load simulation on the Big-IP LTM VE

i usually use jmeter and apache bench. not sure if it is useful for you.

 

 

jmeter

 

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

 

 

ab

 

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html

wget? curl? Custom perl scripts?

 

 

I've used all of those... They have the advantage of being free... Then there's the expensive things like roadrunner (I'm assuming here you're using an HTTP VS, and not something like LDAP - There's a free ldap load tool that I've mentioned previously).

 

 

H

I'd add Selenium for session aware web app testing:

 

 

Selenium - supports dynamic sessions, but low concurrency web app tester

 

http://seleniumhq.org/

 

 

Aaron

I'd also say that it depends on what kind of traffic need to be simulated.

 

In addition to the tools above:

 

 

For load testing WSDL/SOAP SOAPUI http://www.soapui.org will be great choice (base version is free).

 

For WEB UI scenarios Web Performance Tester http://www.webperformanceinc.com/ has a base version for free, which is limited for 10 users. Or HP Load Runner is really high scale tool with plenty of protocols and scenarios supported, but it's also expensive (has 1 month limited trial).

 

For diameter you can use Diameter plugin for jmeter from Computaris http://www.computaris.com/ (requires a license) or Seagull http://gull.sourceforge.net/. Seagull also has great support for Radius and it's a free tool.