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Default Parameters for VmgNicStreamTest

The VmgNicStreamTest auto-discovers the users who are connected to virtual desktops via the Nice DCV protocol, and measures the bandwidth usage, frames processing ability, and time taken to establish each user's session. In the process, bandwidth-hungry, latent sessions can be accurately isolated.

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

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

  • In the HOST text box, specify the nick name of the Cloud Desktops component for which this test is to be configured.

  • To obtain the ‘inside view’ of performance of the cloud-hosted Windows desktops - i.e., to measure the internal performance of the Windows virtual desktops - this test uses a light-weight eG VM Agent software deployed on each of the desktops. Accordingly, the INSIDEVIEWUSING parameter is by default set to eG VM Agent (Windows).

  • The REPORTBYUSER flag is set to Yes by default. The value of this flag cannot be changed. This implies that the virtual desktops hosted in cloud environments will always be identified using the login name of the user. In other words, in cloud environments, this test will, by default, report measures for every username_on_virtualmachinename.

  • The REPORTPOWEREDOS flag is relevant only for those tests that are mapped to the Inside View of Desktops layer. If this flag is set to Yes (which is the default setting(, then the ‘inside view’ tests will report measures for even those Windows virtual desktops that do not have any users logged in currently. Such desktops will be identified by their name and not by the username_on_virtualdesktopname. On the other hand, if this flag is set to No, then this test will not report measures for those Windows virtual desktops to which no users are logged in currently.

  • Since the ISCLOUDVMs test runs for a ‘Cloud Desktops’ component, this flag is set to Yes by default.

  • 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.