how to enable or disable a particular sampler or listener with command line options in jmeter

Question

I am running Jmeter from jenkins pipeline . My Jmx file has 'Simple data Writer' as listener which I want to enable or disable based on the parameters from jenkins . It is possible to enable / disable the listener with right click but i could not find any means to do the same thing programmatically

Answer 1

If I understand your question correctly, you should use this command:

jmeter -Jsampler.YOURSAMPLER.enabled=true -Jlistener.YOURLISTENER.enabled=false -n -t YOURFILENAME.jmx -l YOURRESULTFILE.jtl 

By using this command, you can enable or disable specific sampler or listener in JMeter.

Answer 2

JMeter .jmx test scripts are basically XML files so you can change the parameter using sed editor before running the test:

sed -i '/<ResultCollector guiclass="SimpleDataWriter" testclass="ResultCollector" testname="Simple Data Writer" enabled="true">/ s/enabled="true"/enabled="false"/' /path/to/your/test.jmx 

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