Installing Apache Benchmark and Wireshark

Installing Apache Benchmark Tool

Apache Benchmark is a benchmarking tool which can be used to stress the serve by generating Http requests to server.

ubuntu@euca-10-1-3-53:~$ sudo apt-get install apache2-utils

Installing Wireshark

Wireshark is a monitoring tool which will monitor different network attributes. Here we are using to monitor incoming Http requests to static website which is running on localhost.

ubuntu@euca-10-1-3-53:~$ sudo apt-get install wireshark

ubuntu@euca-10-1-3-53:~$ sudo groupadd wireshark

ubuntu@euca-10-1-3-53:~$ sudo usermod -a -G wireshark ubuntu

ubuntu@euca-10-1-3-53:~$ sudo chgrp wireshark /usr/bin/dumpcap

ubuntu@euca-10-1-3-53:~$ sudo chmod 750 /usr/bin/dumpcap

ubuntu@euca-10-1-3-53:~$ sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip /usr/bin/dumpcap

ubuntu@euca-10-1-3-53:~$ sudo getcap /usr/bin/dumpcap

ubuntu@euca-10-1-3-53:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common