How to measure utilization of a device with Selenium?

Question

Does anybody knows whether it is possible to measure utilization of a server CPU with Selenium RC? I need to know service demand on the devise.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Since you are extending Selenium's capabilities with RC, you can use your programming language's native ability to measure resource utilization. For instance, in Java, try this

Answer 2

Selenium is just for driving the browser. It doesn't have tools for monitoring CPU usage on the server.

However there is a company called Dynatrace that provides tools for doing this. I think they also make it pretty easy to integrate their tools with your extant Selenium scripts. Here's their website: http://www.dynatrace.com/en/