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Default Parameters for SlowTransTest

This test monitors user-configured transaction patterns, captures the response time of each configured pattern in real-time, compares these actuals with the desired levels of responsiveness (which is also configurable), and thus isolates and proactively alerts you to slow transactions. Note that, this test executes only on IIS web servers operating on Windows 2008, and does not execute on the IIS Web servers v8 and above.

Note:

To make sure that this test reports measures, do the following:

  • Configure a Web Server role on the target Windows 2008 server.
  • Install and configure Advanced Logging for the IIS web server operating on Windows 2008.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the SlowTransTest.

  • The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

  • Using the NAME, PATTERN and THRESHOLD VALUE text boxes, you can configure the URL patterns for the transactions to be monitored by this test. You can group a set of related/similar patterns under a common head - a display name for this group head can be provided in the NAME text box; this display name will appear as a descriptor of the test in the eG monitoring console. In the PATTERN text box, you can configure the transaction patterns that are to be grouped under the specified NAME. Multiple transaction patterns can be separated by a semi-colon. Wild card characters can be used while configuring these patterns. For example, to monitor all transactions with the extension html or jsp, your PATTERN specification should be: *.html;*.jsp. In the THRESHOLD VALUE text box, specify the response time value (in seconds), which should be violated, for a transaction to be counted as a 'slow transaction'. All transaction patterns grouped under a given NAME will be governed by the THRESHOLD VALUE specified.

    You can, if you so need, configure multiple display NAMEs, PATTERNs, and THRESHOLD VALUEs for monitoring. To enable you to configure the multiple values easily, the eG administrative interface provides a special page. To access this page, click on the Click here hyperlink, which appears just above the parameters of this test in the TEST CONFIGURATION PAGE.

  • Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the Update button will register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with "$" indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to "xyz" and $port will be changed to "80" when configuring a test.