eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by WASSessionTest

HTTP sessions form a part of any business application. This test monitors the HTTP sessions on the WebSphere application server.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Active_count The number of sessions that are currently accessed by requests Number A high value indicates an increased workload on the server.
 
Live_count The number of sessions that are currently live Number A high value indicates an increased workload on the server.
Create_count The number of sessions that were newly created since the last measurement period Number A high value indicates a high level of activity in this application.
Invalidate_count The number of sessions that were invalidated since the last measurement period Number This measure is indicative of the session usage pattern of this application.
Invalid_session_requests The number of requests that were received since the last measurement period, for a session that no longer exists Number  
Cache_discards The number of session objects that were forced out of the cache Number  
New_session_failures The number of times since the last measurement period, the request for a new session could not be handled because the value exceeded the maximum session count Number A consistent high value of this measure could indicate that many sessions have been alive for too long a time. A long session lifetime may occur due to one of the following reasons:
  • The application may not timeout the sessions after a fixed interval of time.
  • The sessions in the application might be active for a very long time.
Timeout_invalidates The number of sessions that were invalidated since the last measurement period, due to timeouts Number