JMeter: Stoptest.sh/Shutdown.sh doesn't work from Jenkins

Question

I am running some performance tests from Jenkins. I do have two Windows machines with JMeter and I can configure from Jenkins which one to use. Everything works as expected here.

My issue: I did create another job for Stop/Shutdown the tests in case something goes wrong and you have a big run time. Whenever I try to summon Stoptest.sh/Shutdown.sh on the Windows machine that run tests, nothing happens.

How can I stop tests remotely? It has anything to do with the listening port? Thank you.

PS: Tests are ran using PSExec from Jenkin's Windows slave so there is no active CMD window on the screen.

Answer 1

Be aware that .sh is extension for Linux shell scripts, they cannot be executed by Windows command-line interpreter (CMD or Powershell) if you're running JMeter on Windows you need to go for shutdown.cmd or stoptest.cmd instead

There is also AutoStop Listener plugin which can be used for conditional stopping of JMeter test basing on various criteria, it can be installed using JMeter Plugins Manager