nixia is traffic geneeration client tool to test servers and network It is still work in progress and it is designed to be a Client Framework which will allow us to test multiple protocols. Currently, it supports HTTP.

Cmake >= 2.8

 make;
 sudo make install

Runs Valgrind and Regression suite.

     make test

TBD: Unit test suite

Nixia requires a json file as input.

     nixia -f config.json

An example of a input config json

 {
    "main": {
        "name": "output_10000c1000cu100000r",
        "protocols": ["http"],
    },

    "http": {
        "url": "127.0.0.1",
        "url_path": "",
        "total_connections": 10000,
        "concurrency": 1000,
        "connections_per_second": "",
        "total_requests": 100000,
        "requests_per_second": "",
    }
 }

You can find more examples under examples/configurations directory

After the test is completed, the logs are present in home directory under nixia_info.log