Jmeter remote connection throwing "Connection refused to host" - jmeter

Question

I setup a distributed load testing environment using JMeter in unbundu machines.
->Master: the system running JMeter GUI, control each slave.
->Slave: the system running jmeter-server, receive command from the master and send a request to server under test.
->Target: the web server under test, get request from slaves.
Basic requirements are done:
-The firewalls on the systems are turned off
-All the planned master and Slaves are in the same subnet
-The JMeter server can access the target.
-Same version of JMeter on all the systems (version 2.3.4 ).
I did the following:
1) Tried pinging form master to slave and vice versa through ubundu terminal. its happening ..
2) Added the following to client (master) jmeter.properties:
# Remote hosts and RMI configuration
remote_hosts=192.168.0.139:1099
# RMI port to be used by the server (must start rmiregistry with same port)
server_port=1099
3) Added the following to server (Slave) jmeter.properties:
# On the server(s)
set server_port=1234
start rmiregistry with port 1234
4) Now started the Jmeter engine on Master.
a) Started Jmeter on master machine (GUI)
b) Created test plan--> (added tread group , samplers and required listners)
c) Now start the Slave(s) from the GUI
-click Run at the top
-select Remote start
-select the IP address
But error popup came as :-
"Connection refused to host : 192.168.0.139; nested exception is : java.net.ConnectionException : Connection Refused"
what may be the reason for not connecting with the remote salve (say here : 192.168.0.139)
DO i need to do any more configuration in jmeter.properties file or in any other files (in both slave and master)?

Answer 1

I think you forgot to start the slave in "slave mode".
In command line mode, go to jmeter/bin directory and execute jmeter-server.bat
That will start the slave process and will keeps it listening for commands.
Then you can go forward, loading amd launching the script.
have a look at:
http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/jmeter_distributed_testing_step_by_step.pdf
Also be aware that:
- the two systems MUST run the same Jmeter version
- the two systems MUST be on the same subnetwork
- the two systems SHOULD be as similar as possible: same OS, same directory tree, etc
- "remote_hosts" only require the address. The port is specified by "server_port" parameter.