eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by ZoneNetworkTest

The ZoneNetworkTest monitors the network connectivity from an external location (e.g., the eG server) to every zone on a Solaris virtual server. The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Avg_delay Indicates the average delay between transmission of packet to a zone and receipt of the response to the packet at the source. Secs An increase in network latency could result from misconfiguration of the router(s) along the path, network congestion, retransmissions at the network, etc.
Min_delay The minimum time between transmission of a packet and receipt of the response back. Secs A significant increase in the minimum round-trip time is often a sure sign of network congestion. 
Pkt_loss_pct Indicates the percentage of packets lost during transmission from source to target and back. Percent Packet loss is often caused by network buffer overflows at a network router or by packet corruptions over the network.
Availability Indicates the availability of the network connection Percent

A value of 100 indicates that the zone is connected. The value 0 indicates that the zone is not connected.

Typically, the value 100 corresponds to a Pkt_loss_pct of 0.