This message is only known to occur on 64-bit operating systems, and indicates that the system DLL 'MSVCP71.DLL' is missing from the machine. This DLL is required for successful usage of SilkMeter.
To resolve this error it is necessary to manually…
This video demonstrates how to install SilkMeter, which is the licensing tool for the Silk products.
Although the Silk Meter Release notes only list Operating Systems up to Windows Server 2003, SilkMeter can be installed on later operating systems…
This video demonstrates how to perform a web protocol level recording, and replay of the script.
In Silk Performer Workbench click START HERE which will allow you to create a new project.
The Outline project dialog will appear, and shows a list…
This video demonstrates adding a license to SilkMeter.
When you open SilkMeter Policy Administrator there is already one key there by default – the SilkMeterAdminAccess 2.7 key. This key is required to allow SilkMeter to function correctly, and…
When trying to schedule a Citrix load test using a batch file and Windows Task Scheduler the test runs fine when double clicking the batch file but when the batch file is executed through Windows Task Scheduler the load test results in error CitrixConnectIcaData…
This video demonstrates the process of adding Firefox and Chrome as additional recording browsers for Silk Performer protocol level recordings.
Creating an Application Profile
1. In Silk Performer browse to Settings | System | Recorder | Application…
Silk Performer has inbuilt functions for creating files in Windows Explorer but not for creating folders. However there are multiple ways to interact with Windows Explorer from within Silk Performer by extending its power using Java or .Net Frameworks…
When clicking on Print > Print Preview in an overview report sometimes graphs may be missing from the preview and also from the print job. The same may apply when printing to a file like a pdf.
To print or to show in print preview Slowest Actions (Action…
It may sometimes be useful to check how many items a drop down list contains. These controls often don't have a size property to retrieve the total number of items so the following code can be used to count down and return the total number of values in…
This error is thrown in Silk Performer version 10 and below when using NTLM authentication in combination with any browser which is not an Internet Explorer or Custom type. The reason for this is that historically only Internet Explorer supported NTLM…
This section contains information on licensing in Silk Performer using both SilkMeter license server and standalone license installer.
Covered in this section:
Generating a license file online
Troubleshooting License Server Communication Issues…
Silk Performer 10 introduced a summary page which loads automatically after test execution. This summary page contains useful information about the status of the test.
However if you are running many script executions, perhaps to debug code then this…
The following menu is only expanded when the user hovers over the top item with the mouse.
Due to the nature of the recorder this event is not captured and on TryScript the event to expand the menu never takes place and the item within the menu…
By default, SilkPerformer and TrueLog Explorer will not be able to properly display Japanese characters on a Windows system with an English locale.
Installing the Language pack in Windows:
Go to START | CONTROL PANEL | REGION AND LANGUAGE | ADMINISTRATIVE…
There is a known issue in SilkPerformer 9.0, 9.5 and 10.0 where a browser driven load testing recording does not record a BrowserSetText function for specific types of html 5 text field controls. The affected field types are:
color
date
datetime…
It is important when running a bdlt load test that files which are downloaded or events which occur in the application under test do not trigger other applications to be opened on the agent machine. For example, opening a pdf report in the application…
It is possible to terminate a Windows process using a batch file, and calling that batch file from within Silk Performer. The following code demonstrates this process using the Windows command line utility tasklill.exe.
The contents of the batch file…
The error "An error occurred while opening the project file. Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation" when opening a .Net Explorer project occurs after invoking classes which produce exception errors, then closing .Net Explorer without…
The Citrix Desktop Viewer is not supported in the Citrix XenApp environment. Full details on this can be found in this blog "Enabling Desktop Viewer for XenApp": http://blogs.citrix.com/2011/03/03/enabling-desktop-viewer-for-xenapp/
This states: …
There is usually no way to automate the reading of capthca text fields unless there is a known algorithm from which the correct text can be determined. Captchas like this are specifically designed to prevent automated systems from access.
We would…
This is caused by the license file which has been imported into SilkMeter, or being used in standalone mode.
Locate the .pol licensing file, right click and open in 'notepad' format, the structure of the license file will be presented, including number…
There is a correlation between the number of active users and concurrent connections but it is not a 1:1 ratio. Concurrent connections are the number of currently open TCP/IP connections on an agent. Active users are the number of currently executing…
Flex/AMF3 recording requires at least two files:
flex-messaging-common.jar
flex-messaging-core.jar
Since SilkPerformer 2010 these files are located in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\silk\SilkPerformer x.x\ClassFiles\Adobe-Flex
These…
In the SilkPerformer Release Notes Tested Software section we see an extensive list of supported Operating Systems. Later in the Release Notes, under the Citrix support section we see the following smaller list of supported Operating Systems:
Operating…
This issue was resolved in SilkPerformer 2011 with hotfix SP83_HF15_TcpIp. The issue was resolved in SilkPerformer 2010 R2 with SP82_Hotfix12_TCPIP. Please contact SupportLine to obtain these hotfixes. It is also possible to disable the Windows Update…