Default Parameters for NPSRAcctServerTest

This test tracks the requests to and responses from each accounting server and reveals whether/not the servers are responding as quickly as the requests come in. You can also use this test to monitor the time each server takes to process requests, and thus identify the server that is experiencing a processing bottleneck. In addition, the test also captures the rate at which packets are dropped by the server and malformed/erroneous packets are received by the server, thus pointing to issues with the client or in the network connection between the server and the client. The load on each server is also revealed by monitoring the packets received by and the pending requests on the server from time to time. This way, the test pinpoints irregularities in load-balancing between servers, which in time can bottleneck request processing by the servers, resulting in slowdowns.

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

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

• 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.