Anyone out there care to share their experience (ahum...plan of attack)
regarding stress testing Lawson (LSF-9)?

I have been tasked with developing a plan to test all processes hitting
the system at the same time (ie. requisitions, PO's, receiving,
interfaces, J/E posting, allocation running, report running, etc.). The
idea is to see what it takes to bring the system to a halt.

A test to see how the system performs when we have lots of users on the
system. If there is a way to simulate this, that would be best.
Otherwise, we'll have to round up a large group to log in and do some
tasks at the same time.

Any experiences or suggestions on the best way to accomplish this would
be greatly appreciated.

TIA,
~Shane

In the past I have done Perl scripts that just hit the server with AGS calls.
But another thing you could do, is setup a few PCs and have them run Excel Addins to just add and change a bunch of records simultaneously. Each Excel sheet can be treated as many users since it does so many transactions per minute and users typically can't. :nix:

That's the quick and easy way. There is a software industry built around the idea of performance testing though and I think Lawson has been tested with a few of them.