- Install the RWP*Load Simulator and set environment variables properly.
- Make sure you have gnuplot and a http server installed and running.
- If at all possible, create a repository that is not in your database under test.
- Create a database for your testing.
- Decide upon a short project name (could be the same as your database) and copy the two files oltp.env and oltp.rwl using your project name to your working directory.
- Edit these two files according to the comments in them. Note that the latter file with rwl suffix often is referred to as your projects parameter file.
- Create the awr directory and results directory.
- Prepare your http server such that the awr directory is visible from a browser.
- Run
oltpverify -ds
to verify directories and dba access to your database. - Run
oltpcreate
to create schemas. - Run
oltpverify -a
for a complete verification of database schemas. - Run
oltpcore
as your first run - Verify you can browse results from this run
You will now be ready to do real runs that may include:
- Running
oltprun
for individual runs - Modifying parameters in your projects parameter file
- Doing scaling runs using
oltpscale
- Running continuous runs using
oltpforever
Note that most scripts take a -H option to provide a brief help.
All reference guides is available as rwlman pages, start with rwlman oltp