Default Parameters for AppPoolWorkerTest

This test periodically monitors the overall status, resource usage, open handles, and I/O activity in each application pool on an IIS web server; in addition, the test also captures and reports operational issues with the worker processes that service requests to an application pool, thereby shedding light on the contribution of worker processes to slowdowns/outages that a web server suffers.

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

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

• By default, the WEBSITE NAME parameter is set to none. This implies that the test monitors all web sites, by default. If you want the test to monitor a specific web site alone, then specify that web site name here.

  Note:

  If this test is configured with a web site name, then all other web site-related tests of the target IIS web server will report metrics for this web site only.

• If a request is processed for a period equal to or more than the duration (in second) specified in SLOW REQUEST CUT OFF, then such a request is counted as a slow request. By default, the slow request cut off is 4. This means that, by default, the test will report all requests that take 4 seconds or more to be serviced as slow requests. You can override this default setting by specified a different cut-off value here

• Once the necessary values have been entered, 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.