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Today’s code comes to us from Anthony Lyski:
“I ran into an issue today where I needed to know id an integer was an odd or even number. I found that this is a very effective way to determine. I put this code in a ‘for’ loop so you can see how it works over a range of numbers.”
int i;

for (i=0;i<100;i++) {
if (i & 1){
lr_message(“%d is odd”, i);
}
else{
lr_message(“%d is even”, i);
}
} Read Entire Entry

Lets say you need to grab a list of items or numbers from a web page, such as GUID’s. These are not dynamic numbers, but will be used in a script as parameters. Here is how I captured the data I wanted and created my own DAT file:

Figure out the format you want the DAT file to be in. For me, this was a GUID, another GUID, and a user ID. I created a file and put the top line in with the headers GUID1, GUID2, LOGIN and saved it to my C: drive in the root folder. I already knew the login so I had already set this up a a paramet Read Entire Entry

Did you know there is a deeper level of logging in the MI Listener Aganet? The following can be done if you are having problems with the MI_Listener and the Generator to determine connectivity issues.

kill the agent processes on all the machines
append to [launcher] section at launch_service\dat\mdrv.dat the following line:
ExtCmdLine=-drv_int_msgs -drv_log_flush

Activate agents on all the machines and try to connect.
collect log file generated (%TEMP%\LoadRunner_agent_startup.log).

You will need these logs when submi Read Entire Entry