eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by WinSockTest

The WinSock Proxy service supports Microsoft Windows operating systems using Windows Sockets. Windows Sockets is an interprocess communication mechanism derived from the Berkeley Sockets interface (originally designed for Unix systems). The Sockets interface was extended to support Windows-based clients running Microsoft implementations of TCP/IP. The name given to this Sockets interface for Windows was WinSock (for Windows Sockets). The WinSock Proxy Service support is available for both Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange (IPX/SPX) protocols. The WinSock Proxy service applies mainly to Windows clients, including Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows NT.

This test reports the performance statistics pertaining to this WinSock Proxy Service. 

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Accepting_tcp_connections The number of TCP connection objects that will wait for TCP connections from WinSock proxy clients Percent A high value could indicate an increase in the proxy server load, due to which lesser TCP connection requests are accepted. 
Active_sessions The number of active sessions for the WinSock proxy service Number  
Active_tcp_connections The total number of TCP connections that are currently transmitting data Number  
Active_udp_connections The number of active UDP connections Number  
Available_worker_threads The number of  available WinSock worker threads Number The high increase in the number  may affect the performance of the host / applications.
Data_recv_rate The rate at which data is received KB/Sec A low value could indicate a network bottleneck
Data_xmit_rate The rate at which data is submitted KB/Sec A high value of this measure could result in a network congestion
Failed_dns_resolutions The number of calls that have failed to resolve DNS domain name and IP address for WinSock proxy connections Number This value must be low; a high value indicates that there may be a network / WinSock service problem on the host.
Pending_dns_resolutions The number of calls awaiting DNS domain name and IP address resolution for WinSock proxy connections Number This value must be low; a high value indicates that there may be a network / WinSock service problem on the host.
Worker_threads The number of WinSock worker threads that are currently available or alive Number An increase in this value  may affect the performance of the host / application.