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"Another option which might make your life easier is a neat trick with using “ctrl-shift” during your recording...." Is this combination configurable? 'ctrl-shift' causes some issues when running the recorder through an RDC session on a mac.

One feature I don't see on the list that I know I and several others have been looking for is the ability to continue on error? This is so one test could for example be used to test one particular web page on several nodes. Say I have 10 nodes serving a page and I just want to make sure that page is working on all 10.…

Is there any sort of timeframe for these changes that can be given? Even a loose one? I'm being asked weekly for updates on this by my team and have to keep referring them to this 4 month old post. Thanks, Derek Also, I'm not seeing the ability to use regular expressions for text matches. This seems like a really simple…

Fantastic list. We are really looking forward to some of these. Can't wait to try them out.

We are having the same issue on our end. One of our apps will occasionally put up a banner page that breaks the test. We have SLAs based on this product and our reliability numbers get hit bad when these banners go up. Would be nice if the presence of the banner could be tested for and handled with a condition. Just need…

Did you figure this out? I'm getting the same type of message but it is telling me my WPM version is incompatible even though I am running 2.0.1.

Another one I see missing that we would certainly like to see soon. The ability to use regular expressions. I'm working on a test right now that I have no way of verifying due to this. At least I can't figure out how. I tried doing a image match instead, but as soon as I ran the test (it passed in recorder) it generated an…

It's a minor issue. But I'm using CoRD for OSX to connect to my remote players and when I "ctrl-shift-click" with CoRD, I get the right click context menu pop up. That is the default osx behavior and isn't configurable either.

Option to continue playback after step failure.309476 The version 2.1.0 change log states that we can now continue playback after failure based on the fixed issues. Web Performance Monitor 2.0 Release Notes But the changes listed don't seem to suggest this is possible? I hadn't had a chance to install 2.1 yet on my dev,…

Eureka, guess I should have used the debug logs earlier and saved a couple of hours... Seeing this in the debug logs for every step of every test: 2013-03-14 14:26:05,080 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][Browser Thread] DEBUG SolarWinds.SEUM.Player.WatiN.WatiNPlayer - Waiting for pending requests 2013-03-14 14:26:06,094…

Would appreciate that info on blocking specific domains when you get a chance. I've been going through the config files but not finding it. I could (?) update the hosts file to point them to local host but hoping there is a better method? Thanks, Derek

Thanks, I appreciate the input... Still scratching my head over this one. I just now went and created a new local user on the box, switched to that user and loaded up the same URLs in IE with the developer tools and just don't see any issue at all. The pages all load almost as soon as I click on the links. Logging into our…

This is the one that helped greatly. Any ideas as to why this would be? In the recorder, my 9 step test was taking 5 minutes and 10 seconds on average to run. After changing this one setting to 5 seconds from 30, the test now only takes 1 minute and 22 seconds to run. After changing the player config to this, my player…

Thanks for taking the time to setup a meeting and for being open to suggestions for future enhancements. Derek

Thanks. I had them completely remove it on one of my players but it didn't seem to help at all. In the recorder, on a 9 step test that reports taking 24 seconds to run, it takes actually over 5 minutes to complete. Between every step I'm seeing a 30 second pause at the end of the step and before the next step starts. So…

I did get instructions on setting the player up to only run one transaction at a time last time. We really can't afford to limit our players like that though. I have 5 players in production at the moment and each already have 15 transactions on them. I'm only about a third of the way with the migration of our old product…

Wasn't as hard as I expected it to be. Managed to download SDK to a windows box, unpack .msi and then copy the .pm files to a linux box. Tweaked the sample a bit and got this to work: print $swis->QueryXml('SELECT Name,StatusDescription FROM Orion.SEUM.Transactions'); print $swis->QueryXml('SELECT Name FROM…

Thanks. I looked at the SDK earlier but wasn't quite able to wrap my head around it. I work primarily with perl and work best with example scripts that I can modify as needed. I'll take another look at it.

There is a current issue with a new version of the app that was rolled that causes IE10 to crash. Basically a user logs into our app and then selects a specific link and IE10 immediately crashes. Not sure why this would cause the transaction to take longer than normal though unless it's just waiting a long time after the…

2.0.1. How do you handle test deployment? I have for example 100 nodes supporting one application (this is just one example). Deploying a 10 step test to all 100 of those nodes will take me all day. Having to change step 5 in that 10 step test means I have to redo all 100 tests which would take me the majority of another…

I've been dealing with this since updating to IE10. I've tried adjusting the Internet Explorer settings to limit the size of this file but hadn't had any luck. In normal use this wouldn't be a problem, since in most cases, you have one user on a box and one webcache file, so a few gig isn't that big of a deal. But with WPM…

Thanks, that was helpful. Was always curious why the player load percentage didn't seem to really line up with the actual load on the box. There was a Trendmicro OfficeScan to all of my boxes around that same time. So looking into that now to see if it is causing tests to take longer. The total time for a transaction…

Thanks. I have been tweaking those for some time and it has helped. But in this particular case, I was hoping for a setting to tell WPM to stop retrying a particular step after X failures. IE, limit the number of times it does this: 2013-04-29 10:30:39,656 [SolarWinds.SEUM.Agent.Worker.exe][Browser Thread] WARN…

Thanks, that's all I needed. Have it working just like I hoped now.

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place then? I click "HOME" tab, then "Message Center". From there, I pick the time frame from when the transaction monitor was unmanaged and pick "Transaction Unmanaged" as the event type. I'm then shown a series of login and unmanage events, the login events show me who logged in, but the…

Something we've been looking for since day 1 and can't understand why it wasn't included is support for regular expressions. This is the first monitoring tool I've implemented that can't do this. Regular expression support would resolve a lot of our problems. The ability to capture results using a regular expression and…

It does appear to have been due to permissions. I tried running the recorder as administrator and this time it worked as expected. I seem to be running into these UAC issues on my 2012 servers a lot. Not really sure what Microsoft is protecting if they are forcing everyone to run everything as an admin. Thanks.

I actually already went through support on this issue awhile ago. I was just checking in to see if anything is in the works to resolve it yet. I just now came across the problem again on a different application. Our new customer form prefills the phone number field with XXX-XXX-XXXX. I recorded a test to simulate a new…

Calling my cgi script every minute is actually working well. I end up with a 20mb file by the end of the day, but it's manageable. I do seem to be having an issue with 'unmanaged' monitors though. Nothing I put in the alert manager seems to be triggering a call to the cgi-script for monitors that are turned off. I'd like…

We haven't had time to make use of it yet, but be aware that conditional support was added to WPM with the 2.1 release. You can now make steps "optional".