Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Performance Toolkit

New Post: Requested value 'Geo' was not found error

MicrosoftB — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:48:45 GMT

Hi Bittu_crm,

You need to ignore the WRPC token. In your performance toolkit installation directory > ConfigFiles > ConfigSettings.xml, change the value for ignoretokencheck to true:

<ignoretokencheck value="true"/>

Hth!
Happy benchmarking :)

New Post: CRM Perf Toolkit 2011 - Generate Code for WebTest

Bittu_crm — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:34:06 GMT

Hi,

I'm too facing the same situation. Did any one found the solution.

New Post: Requested value 'Geo' was not found error

Bittu_crm — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:32:50 GMT

Hi,

I've been facing the below issue in the performance toolkit. Please suggest a solution at the earliest. below is the issue details:

Request failed: Exception occurred: Requested value 'Geo' was not found.

at System.Enum.TryParseEnum(Type enumType, String value, Boolean ignoreCase, EnumResult& parseResult)
at System.Enum.Parse(Type enumType, String value, Boolean ignoreCase)
at Microsoft.Crm.SharedDatabase.ConvertUtility.EnumFromXmlString(Type enumType, String mask)
at Microsoft.Crm.SharedDatabase.Table..ctor(XmlNode node)
at Microsoft.Crm.SharedDatabase.DBMetadataCache.LoadTables(XmlDocument doc)
at Microsoft.Crm.SharedDatabase.DBMetadataCache.LoadCache(String metadataXml)
at Microsoft.Crm.ConfigurationDatabase.ConfigurationMetadata.get_Cache()
at Microsoft.Crm.ServerLocatorService.RetrieveById(String tableName, Object primaryKey, String[] columns)
at Microsoft.Crm.ServerLocatorService.GetOrganizationScaleGroupId(Guid organizationId)
at Microsoft.Crm.LocatorService.GetOrganizationScaleGroupId(Guid organizationId)
at CRM_Perf_BenchMark.Utils.GenerateWRPCToken(String baseurl, CRMEntity user, String tokenKey) in D:\CRMToolkit\KN Solution\CRM_Perf_Toolkit\CRM_Perf_BenchMark\Utilities\Util.cs:line 923
at CRM_Perf_BenchMark.CreateNewHH.d__0.MoveNext() in D:\CRMToolkit\KN Solution\CRM_Perf_Toolkit\CRM_Perf_BenchMark\WebTests\CreateNewHH.cs:line 177
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebStress.WebTestCaseVariation.ExecuteNextTopLevelRequest()

Thank you.

New Post: CRM 4.0 Performance Toolkit - How to use

adivarma — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:46:10 GMT

Hi,

The load pattern chosen was constant load, that means all tests will kick off at the same time and 10 tests will run at the same time. When the very first test starts, it tries to load all the data that the toolkit will need into memory of the process from the EntityManager DB(the DB that the toolkit uses to store all it's data). This process takes a while. As such it is suggested that you set warm up duration of around 2 minutes so that it runs one test case which kicks off the loading of data into memory during that time. Once the warm up time ends, the actual load pattern starts which in your case seems to be constant load, and should run smoother as all the data is already in memory of the toolkit.

As to why there are waves of action and inaction, it might have to do with the threadpool settings you have. Please ensure that you run with enough thread pool.

As to your first point, one is requests/second which will show you the snapshot at any given point of time while the total transactions is a cumulative number and will be ever increasing. If you look at transactions/second it will be similar to the requests/second.

Tests/second is the total number of tests that completed in one second. It won't be 10 as it depends on the speed at which the server is able to complete the actions called by each test. If you had 10 simulated users and each test finishes in one second then your tests/second will be 10, in your case it seems when 10 simulated users are calling the tests, each test might be taking around 5 seconds which will give you your rough 1.97 tests/second.

Thanks,

Adi.

New Post: CRM 4.0 Performance Toolkit - How to use

lastsin — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:44:05 GMT

Hello.

I am one of those who managed to run this magic tool, written by Microsoft. And I want to share my experience.

Let's begin.

Installation:

First of all i installed MS CRM Performance Toolkit 4.0 (at that I also has installed MS Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Express 2005) with all necessary setting as described in "Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 Performance Toolkit.docx".
The next step I created 200 users (crmusrt1, crmusrt2.., crmusrt200) in Active Directory and launched "RunPopulation.cmd". After that, there was no any errors in file 'UserPopulate_Errors_...'.3. I started the 'EMDBLoader.exe' and it has also been successfully completed.

Creating Tests:

I've created a load test which included 2 tests: CreateNewLead and CreateNewContact, and 10 users who must use this test without any think
times.

In detail (Edit load patternt setting for a load test scenario):

On the Scenario window I've selected "Do not use think times".
Load Pattern - Constant Load: 10 users.
Test Mis - CreateNewLead and CreateNewContact.
Browser Mix - Internet Explorer 6.0.
Network Mix - LAN.
Counter Sets - (Default).
Run Settings - Warm-up duration: 00:00:00, Run duration 00:20:00, Sampling rate 5 secods. Maximum error details: 100. Validation level - Low - invoke validation rules marked low.

Running Tests:

I ran the test that has created, as described above and recieved following results:

In Summary.

Reuests:

Total Request: 5.815
Requests/sec: 9.88
Falled Requests: 3.00
Cached Requests 0

Test Cases:

Total Tests: 1,162
Tests/Sec: 1,97
Fslled Tests 3.00

Counters.

User Load: Range: 10, Min 10, Max 10, Avg 10, Last 10.2.
Request/Sec: Range 100, Min 0.0, Max 43.6, Avg 9.9, Last 0.0.3.
Avg. Response Time: Range 100, Min 0.2, Max 72.1, Avg 1.0, Last -.4.
Total Transactions: Range 10000, Min 0, Max 2,324, Avg 1,191, Last 2,324.

The questions:

On the Chart, counters "Request/Sec" and "Total Transactions" did not rise linearly. Counter "Request/Sec" rise on 00:00 sec to 00:45 sec. Next on the 00:45 to 1:05 fall to zero. Then it begins to grow only on 02:20
sec to 03:05 sec and fall to zero after 03:05 and so on. Counter "Total Transactions" behaves the same with "Request/Sec" but with one difference. After growth, it does not fall, but It
just does not change its value: rise on 00:00 sec to 00:45 sec, then it rise on 02:20 to 03:05 and so on. I think, that Counters "Request/Sec" and "Total Transactions" should not be so changed. They should match the settings described above. Is not
it?
In Summary window parameter "Tests/Sec" must be 10, as was configured for 10 users. But It value is 1,97. What does It mean?

Thank you for any response.

New Post: CRM performance toolkit with VS2008

Andy30 — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:51:54 GMT

Hi All,

New to this program and was wondering could someone help me out.

I have installed the performance toolkit and run the populator, all works fine and the default customizations are applied.

However, when i attempt to follow the step of running the webtest 'CreateNewNoteForAccount' it is not available in the list of tests. I don't see anywhere that the user could select this as a test.

When i open the test list, only the following are available:

DMUnitTest_BulkDelete_LeadsFromQuery
DMUnitTest_CrossEntityRuleCreate
DMUnitTest_PublishSingleEntityRuleOnContacts
DMUnitTest_PublishCrossEntityRuleOnContactsAndAccounts
DMUnitTest_BulkDetectDuplicates
DMUnitTest_Import_ImportExportMap
DMUnitTest_Import_ImportLeads_2K
DMUnitTest_Import_ContactForUpdate_2K
DMUnitTest_Import_CreateImport
OutgoingTest
IncomingSalesTest
IncomingSupportTest
IncrementalGoOfflineTM
ManagedABPSyncTM
SyncToOutlookTM

Is there somewhere where I am going wrong?

Also can this be used for testing custom pages? Pages within a CRM deployment that are not basic entity types?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Source code checked in, #96133

Project Collection Service Accounts — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:40:31 GMT

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Source code checked in, #96132

Project Collection Service Accounts — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:33:03 GMT

Checked in by server upgrade

New Post: CRM Perf Toolkit 2011 - Generate Code for WebTest

ashish1982 — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:32:45 GMT

Hi,

I am using CRM Perf Toolkit for CRM 2011 with VS 2010 Ultimate. I am able to execute all Performance Toolkit webtests and Loadtests, which creates data in CRM and Entity Manager DB.

When I create Web Test using Recorder for my specific test scenarios, for example Create New Incident scenario; the test gets recorded. However, the Generate Code fails with an error:

Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.Crm.Application.Components.Shared

Also, if I run the Web Test individually, no data gets created in CRM or EntityManager.

Would appreciate if someone can help on this. Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Ashish

New Post: CRM 4.0 Performance Testing with VS 2010

shaydamous — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:04:49 GMT

VS 2010 Web Performance Test Recorder can track web service requests and is able to view, search and create records in CRM using out of the box tools, therefore is there any possibility to release CRM 4.0 Performance Toolkit that use VS 2010 Web Performance Test?

New Post: CRM 2011 version of the performance toolkit

rboyers — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:32:11 GMT

Hi,

The 2011 version has been released: http://dynamics-crm.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-us/applications/performance-toolkit-for-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-12884915630

Rob

New Post: Is Microsoft_Dynamics_CRM_4_Performance_Toolkit can help to test Agent scenario for Load testing

purendra — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:26:15 GMT

I am using Microsoft_Dynamics_CRM_4_Performance_Toolkit for load test. i want to perform 400 VU load and responce verification by using this tool.

is it feasibal with this tool?

New Post: 500 Error while running CreateNewNoteForAccount test

rboyers — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:06:21 GMT

Did anyone manage to get around this issue? I am receiving hundreds of these errors!

A swift response would be very much appreciated.

Rob

New Post: EMDBLoader.exe required SQL Admin privilege

rboyers — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:48:00 GMT

I had trouble running the EMDBLoader.exe and was receiving the following error in the console:

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

at CRM_Perf_BenchMark.EntityManager.GetRandomOrg() in C:\CRM 4.0 Toolkit\CRM4_Perf_Toolkit\CRM_Perf_BenchMark\Utilities\EntityManager.cs:line 225

at CRM_Perf_BenchMark.EntityManager.get_OrgId() in C:\CRM 4.0 Toolkit\CRM4Perf_Toolkit\CRM_Perf_BenchMark\Utilities\EntityManager.cs:line 209

at EMDBLoader.Program.Main(String[] args) in C:\CRM 4.0 Toolkit\CRM4_Perf_Toolkit\EMDBLoader\Program.cs:Line14

It turned out to be because I wasn't a SQL admin. As I was running this in a sensitive organisation, this information would have been useful to know earlier.

Maybe the documentation could be updated to include this prerequisite?

Rob Boyers

New Post: Error in installation

vipinkavishwar — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:46:20 GMT

Hi,

I am getting following error -

CRM 4.0 Performance Toolkit Setup Ended Prematurely because of an error. Your system has not been modified. To install this program at a later time, run Setup wizard again. Click Finish button to exit Setup Wizard.

Let me know what could be resolution.

Regards,

Vipin

Reviewed: Microsoft CRM 4.0 Performance Toolkit (1 30, 2011)

SOkada — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:11:41 GMT

Rated 3 Stars (out of 5) - Perfomance test

New Post: CRM 2011 version of the performance toolkit

amervitz — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:13:13 GMT

Is a version of this toolkit going to be released for CRM 2011? Now that CRM 2011 Beta has been released, ways to measure performance and capacity testing is needed.

New Post: Running DBpopulator.exe seperately

andyboy12345 — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:05:55 GMT

Hi,

Are you running DBPopulator from a 64-bit environment? If executed on a 64-bit environment, the DBPopulator wants to load a 64-bit version of Microsoft.crm.SdkProxy.dll, which leads to the BadImageFormatException.

In the "DBPpopulator" project, go into Project properties->Build and set "Platform Target" to "x86", and then it should work.

Source code checked in, #63489

_TFSSERVICE — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:28:19 GMT

Checked in by server upgrade

New Post: Running DBpopulator.exe seperately

amitbg005 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:05:02 GMT

Hi All,

I was getting errors when trying execute RunPopulation.exe on windows server 2008, with VSTS 2008. Hence to resolve the issue I have manually done import customization. However when trying to execute DbPopulator.exe command i get errors and cmd application throws errors and exit. Any help regarding this matter is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

for reference mentioning the dbppopulator command executed

C:\CRM 4.0 Toolkit\Binaries\DbPopulator>dbpopulator.exe NestedSFAEntitiesWithSt
ate.xml

Unhandled Exception: System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or asse
mbly 'Microsoft.Crm.SdkProxy, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3
1bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a progr
am with an incorrect format.
File name: 'Microsoft.Crm.SdkProxy, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyT
oken=31bf3856ad364e35'
   at dbPopulator.DbPopulator.RetrieveOrgNames()
   at dbPopulator.DbPopulator.Initialize()
   at dbPopulator.DbPopulator.Start(String configFile)
   at dbPopulator.DbPopulator.Main(String[] args)

=== Pre-bind state information ===
LOG: User = REDMOND\v-amitga
LOG: DisplayName = Microsoft.Crm.SdkProxy, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, Pub
licKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
(Fully-specified)
LOG: Appbase = file:///C:/CRM 4.0 Toolkit/Binaries/DbPopulator/
LOG: Initial PrivatePath = NULL
Calling assembly : dbPopulator, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken
=null.
===
LOG: This bind starts in default load context.
LOG: No application configuration file found.
LOG: Using machine configuration file from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\
v2.0.50727\config\machine.config.
LOG: Post-policy reference: Microsoft.Crm.SdkProxy, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neu
tral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/CRM 4.0 Toolkit/Binaries/DbPopula
tor/Microsoft.Crm.SdkProxy.DLL.
ERR: Failed to complete setup of assembly (hr = 0x8007000b). Probing terminated.

C:\CRM 4.0 Toolkit\Binaries\DbPopulator>