Default Parameters for WVDBrowserTest

In recent times, browsers have become one of the common ways to access many applications in enterprises. The same browser may be used for accessing multiple applications. Further, users may even use browsers to access non-corporate web sites from their environment. In modern architectures, a lot of the processing is done by the scripts executed on browsers. This further adds processing tasks to the browsers. VDI administrators need to know when exactly specific browser instances started taking up excessive resources (CPU, memory, disk) and most importantly, what URLs were accessed when a browser started taking up resources. The WVDBrowserTest helps administrators in this regard!

This test auto-discovers the browsers accessed by each user connected to and AVD, and for each browser, reports the number of sessions initiated and the number of processes running. This test also reports the URLs that were accessed when a browser started taking up resources. Using this test, administrators can figure out the URL and browser that is responsible for excessive resource utilization by a user.

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

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

• By default, the REPORT BY DOMAIN NAME flag is set to Yes. This implies that by default, this test will report metrics for each domainname\username logged into the chosen Session Host / Azure Virtual Desktop. This way, administrators will be able to quickly determine which user logged in from which domain. If you want the test to report metrics for the username alone, then set this flag to No.

• The DD FREQUENCY parameter refers to the frequency with which detailed diagnosis measures are to be generated for this test. The default is 1:1. This indicates that, by default, detailed measures will be generated every time this test runs, and also every time the test detects a problem. You can modify this frequency, if you so desire. Also, if you intend to disable the detailed diagnosis capability for this test, you can do so by specifying none against DD FREQUENCY .

• Once the above values are provided, click on the UPDATE button to 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.