I am trying to set up tabjolt on one of our tableau servers but i don't have admin access. Using the tabjolt install wizard to connect to a tableau server requires admin access. Is there any way around this?
If not, I may be able to get it temporally, can i set it up via admin so i can run performance tests as another user after that?
tabjolt will require admin access for complete access to Tableau metadata. In the setup docs it states that your admin password will be stored for access to the server. If your admin uses their credentials in the setup process then possibly you could run future tests but I haven't confirmed that.
Other users can be setup to run load tests on their specific workbooks.
Keep in mind that you will also need to be logged into the Windows Server with admin access so tabjolt can access Windows Performance metrics.
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can anyone tell me what IAM role policy required for setup Jmeter on aws as a user.
JMeter is a piece of software which user can download from Internet and launch, you don't need to "setup" it at all.
The only pre-requisite is JRE (or better JDK) version 8+
More information: JMeter Installation: How to Get Started
I cannot think of any suitable IAM policy, the user needs to be able to access the machine over RDP or SSH, it is not necessary even to have an AWS account.
so I have Windows Server 2012 which is running on my virtual machine. I want to have possibility to make anonymous query against LDAP. For example if I'm using software like Softerra LDAP Browser I need to run this program as domain user to be able browse AD groups/users etc. But my point is that I want to be able to do it also as non-domain user(anonymous), or at least using domain user credentials from machine that is not part of the domain.
I was looking for this option in user/group policies, I've grant my user with all privileges that I found - but always with the same result - I was unable to browse LDAP.
So my question is - what have to bet set/changed to be able make anonymous queries against Windows Server LDAP?
I don't know about anonymous queries, but you said that you would also be happy using a domain user from a non-domain machine.
That should work fine. Create a domain user with sufficient privileges to see what you want.
Install a certificate on your LDAP server (or use Kerberos, but that's more annoying on the non-domain machine).
Then do LDAP authentication using the username and password of that domain user.
It works well.
I'm trying to run a simple ASP.NET application with basic authentication on an IIS server. Interestingly, the authentication works fine on almost all servers except my production server. When I deploy the application on that machine, it keeps prompting me over and over for the credentials. Unfortunately, it is a lab machine that I don't have access to and I'm not able to view the logs either.
It's an IIS 7.5 server running on a Windows 2008 VM server I guess, and the content folder (where the default app is pointing to) is on shared with us (we have write access to that folder and that's how we are deploying our applications).
Outside authentication settings on the server, what other things could be causing the issue? Please advise.
Most probably this is a access permission to resources used by the web application.
The reason you see this repeatedly login prompt is that the account doesn't have the needed permissions.
First you have to determine if you are using impersonation or not.
If you do impersonate, the authenticated accounts need the necessary permissions.
If you don't impersonate, the application pool account needs the necessary permissions.
So what's the needed permissions?
Well, that could be a lot of things, and we don't know the details of your application.
Do you connect to a database?
Then you have to make sure that current account context has the right permissions to connect to the DB.
Do you read images/files from disk?
Then you have to make sure that current account context has the right permissions to access those resources.
If it is file resources that you are accessing, I would recommend you to use Fiddler and determine which path(s) you'll need to address. It will tell you by those 404 errors.
EDIT: Make sure that your app pool account has the needed permissions for this DLL you mention. Where does it fetch this list from? Is it static in the DLL? Where's this DLL located?
Please also check the event logs on the server for any related errors at the time you try to logon.
Our developers have recently built a new internal 'image viewer' application for our staff to use. The image viewer runs as a website and uses Active Directory to authenticate the user and control what type of images that user is allowed to view.
I have this setup and working fine by running the website as an impersonated domain user. The problem I now face is that all the images are held on a non-domain share. How can I access this share using the domain user? The share is on a Novell Netware 6.5 server.
Alternatively I can run the website as a non-domain user and connect to the Netware server to retrieve the images, but then I am unable to query Active Directory.
Can I allow a non-domain user access to query AD? I don't wish to allow anonymous queries on my domain controllers.
No, a non-domain user cannot query Active Directory unless you configure your domain to allow anonymous queries.
Depending on how everything is setup in the web application, you may be able to insert some code to switch security contexts and impersonate a domain user at the point where the query happens.
I'm wishing to use Visual Studio Load Tests to perform some load testing.
I was hoping to be able to use the counter monitoring that the Load Test provide in order to collect performance statistics from the web server I'm loading.
However there only seems to be support for connecting to machines you wish to monitor via your domain credentials. From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182594.aspx, section "To specify computers to monitor with counter sets during load test run"
On each server that you monitor, you must have sufficient user permissions to run performance monitors. Otherwise, errors are generated.
There seems to be no way to provide specific credentials to use to connect to machines you wish to monitor. As the web server I wish to monitor does not belong to a domain, I don't see any way to monitor it using VS Load Tests.
Is there some way to monitor it using VS Load Tests that I've missed?
There seems to be no way to provide specific credentials to use to connect to machines you wish to monitor
There is a way to do this. On Windows 7 it is called Credential Manager and you can access it either by searching for Manage Network Passwords on your Start Menu or via Control Panel > User Accounts. On older versions it was called Stored User Names and Passwords, also accessible via Control Panel > User Accounts.
In a nutshell, it allows you to specify alternative credentials for remote systems. Once you have set up credentials, it works completely invisibly and automatically for remote connection attempts from any application applications that support it, including Visual Studio collecting remote Perfmon data.
NOTE that you have to set up the credentials on the account that actually runs your load tests. If you are only running local load tests with no Controller then that's your own account. However if you run a Controller/Agent rig, the Controller may be configured to run under a service account (i.e. check the account running "Visual Studio Test Controller" service or QTController.exe). You have to login as that account and add the credentials.
I've found the following which is working for me. I'm just running the net use commands by hand because I don't want the user name and password in source control.
To get this working you will need to manually open an IPC channel to
the SQL and IIS machines with an account that has permissions in that
domain. This allows the account running the load tests to "piggyback"
across that IPC channel.
i have found this site to be a great help getting this going myself.
http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/tlingenfelder/archive/2009/06/18/performance-counters-timeouts-and-load-testing-with-visual-studio-2008.aspx
what you can do is create a small bat file and set it up to run in the
.testrunconfig file as a setup script.
net use \\SQLSERVER\IPC$ password1 /user:DOMAIN1\USER /persistent:yes
net use \\IISSERVER\IPC$ password2 /user:DOMAIN2\USER /persistent:yes