The Apache-JMeter application is an open source software, It's designed by fully JAVA application for website load test and other testing functions also,

We can install and test on Linux system before that JAVA application is required for run the JMeter software,

Its support for load and performance test many different server/protocol types:

  • Web Servers  are HTTP, HTTPS
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  • SOAP / REST
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  • FTP
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  • Database via JDBC
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  • LDAP
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  • Mail - SMTP, POP3, and IMAP
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  • MongoDB (NoSQL)
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  • Native commands or shell scripts
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  • TCP

1 . Install JAVA,

2 . Download and extract the software,
 
# wget http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/apache//jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-2.13.tgz
  
# tar -xf apache-jmeter-2.13.tgz 

# cd apache-jmeter-2.13

# ./jmeter

Finally, the JMeter software  will appear on the screen.

Some of the  commands received easy way to install,

Ubuntu  : 
 
$ sudo apt-get install jmeter

CentOS 7 :
 
$ sudo yum install jmeter