JMeter jdbc:mysql error

Question

I am trying to setup a JMeter server/client instance on a remote database server. I have extracted JMeter on the server, copied the MySQL java connector into $JMETER_HOME/lib and started the JMeter -server listener. On the client (my local desktop), I have pointed the JMeter client to the remote server (via the remote_hosts entry in $JMETER_HOME/bin/jmeter.properties). Whenever I try to run a MySQL load job on the client (Run -> Remote Start -> ), I get the following error:

Response message: java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:mysql://1.2.3.4/database

And this is on the server side:

2013/04/10 12:44:43 WARN - jmeter.protocol.jdbc.config.DataSourceElement: Could not return Connection java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:mysql://1.2.3.4/dbname at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:602) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:185) at org.apache.avalon.excalibur.datasource.JdbcConnectionFactory.newInstance(JdbcConnectionFactory.java:185) at org.apache.avalon.excalibur.pool.ResourceLimitingPool.newPoolable(ResourceLimitingPool.java:672) at org.apache.avalon.excalibur.pool.ValidatedResourceLimitingPool.newPoolable(ValidatedResourceLimitingPool.java:178) at org.apache.avalon.excalibur.datasource.ResourceLimitingJdbcConnectionPool.newPoolable(ResourceLimitingJdbcConnectionPool.java:123) at org.apache.avalon.excalibur.pool.ResourceLimitingPool.get(ResourceLimitingPool.java:402) at org.apache.avalon.excalibur.pool.ValidatedResourceLimitingPool.get(ValidatedResourceLimitingPool.java:130) at org.apache.avalon.excalib ur.datasource.ResourceLimitingJdbcDataSource.getConnection(ResourceLimitingJdbcDataSource.java:222) at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.jdbc.config.DataSourceElement$DataSourceComponentImpl.getConnection(DataSourceElement.java:286) at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.jdbc.config.DataSourceElement.getConnection(DataSourceElement.java:146) at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.jdbc.sampler.JDBCSampler.sample(JDBCSampler.java:85) at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.process_sampler(JMeterThread.java:428) at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:256) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Does anyone have any idea why this wouldn't work even though the Java connector is in the jmeter lib dir?

Answer 1

So it turns out that the Percona MySQL version that we are running required a specific version of the connector. Dropped that in and it all worked out.