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Note: The ZebraTester Console application execute all of these four server components as integrated threads.

Distributed Architecture

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Remote execution of load tests, as well as combining several Exec Agents (load generators) to a load generating cluster, is supported in an easy and transparent way.

On remote systems normally only Exec Agent are installed and started. They are normally running on port 7993 when plain TCP/IP connections are used or on Port 80 or 443 when HTTP/S connections are used for the internal ZebraTester communication between your local system and the remote Exec Agents – but any other TCP/IP port can also be configured. Please note that you have to enable the corresponding inbound firewall rule on the remote systems.

Load Generators

A Load Generator / Exec Agent is started on your local system as part of the ZebraTester Console. If you have additional agents on remote systems, these can be configured in the Project Navigator.

Overview

Additional Exec Agents – which run on remote systems – can be defined in the Exec Agent Network Configuration menu, which is reachable from Main Menu > Project Navigator > Network:

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