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I have set up jmeter distributed testing using my local machine (master) and AWS EC2 machines (slaves). Most of the config is based on - http://blog.ionelmc.ro/2012/02/16/how-to-run-jmeter-over-ssh-tunnel/

When running tests I have following exception on jmeter-server.log 

2015/11/06 12:42:37 ERROR - jmeter.samplers.RemoteTestListenerWrapper: java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: 127.0.1.1; nested exception is:

java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

One possible solution I came across is from one of the stackover flow question-

and I indeed start my server as - 

./jmeter-server -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=127.0.0.1

and it did not solve the problem. Few other blogs talk about setting following property on server - 

server.rmi.localhostname=127.0.0.1

But I can not find any such property on jmeter 2.13 Was this property removed or replaced by some other property ?

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Tarun
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  • I added the property server.rmi.localhostname in jmeter.properties file and error I mentioned above disappeard. I also had to specify -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=127.0.0.1 on jmeter master node. Though I am curious to know why property server.rmi.localhostname is missing from jmeter.properties file – Tarun Nov 06 '15 at 15:54
  • why -1, what is wrong with question ? – Tarun Nov 09 '15 at 08:25

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I'm having the same problem and just came across this question. If you click on the link that leads to the original blog posts it mentions the following:

WHAT THE PATCH DOES

  • Adds jMeter parameter server.rmi.localhostname - jMeter by default 1) binds to the host's hostname and 2) refuses to bind to localhost. If this parameter is set, jMeter will bind to the specified ip/hostname and (only if this parameter is set) won't complain even if it is localhost.

I assume this patch never made it into JMeter itself. At least for me, just adding the property in question doesn't seem to make it work.

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  • Since I posted this question I got disillusioned of using distributed mode of testing as it has impact on throughput you can achieve with it. Since then I have started using - https://github.com/oliverlloyd/jmeter-ec2 or a modified version (for Jmeter 2.13) - https://github.com/TestingForum/jmeter-ec2 (Still a work in progress) And I get far better throughout then what I do with distributed testing – Tarun Mar 08 '16 at 11:47