As of JMeter 2.8, when one of the remote engines fails to start, a message is displayed in console: "Failed to configure ..." but test is started which seems inappropriate as required load will not be reached. It is better to throw and exception indicating which engines are misconfigured.
Date: Sun Jan 13 15:28:12 2013 New Revision: 1432638 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1432638&view=rev Log: Bug 54414 - Remote Test should not start if one of the engines fails to start correctly Bugzilla Id: 54414 Modified: jmeter/trunk/src/core/org/apache/jmeter/JMeter.java jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
Date: Sun Jan 13 15:30:49 2013 New Revision: 1432641 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1432641&view=rev Log: Bug 54414 - Remote Test should not start if one of the engines fails to start correctly Added incompatible change section Bugzilla Id: 54414 Modified: jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1433092&view=rev Log: Fix text: JMeter now fails if remote engine config fails Modified: jmeter/trunk/src/core/org/apache/jmeter/JMeter.java jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/3032