eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by ProxyServerTest

The Web Proxy service provides support for HTTP (a.k.a. Web publishing), FTP, Gopher, and secure (SSL) communications. The Web Proxy service works with any CERN-compliant Web browser, such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. Because the Web Proxy supports only these widely adopted Internet standard communication methods, it isn’t operating system dependent. Clients running Unix, Macintosh, or Windows operating systems can communicate with the Web Proxy service as long as they’re configured with a CERN-compliant Web browser. 

This test reports the performance statistics pertaining to this Web Proxy service running on an MS Proxy server. 

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Cache_hit_ratio The percentage of requests that have used cached data, to the total  number of requests to the web proxy service 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 web proxy service Number A high value can indicate an increase in the load on one or more applications, or a change in the characteristics of one or more applications.
Client_data_recvd The rate at which the data bytes are received by the proxy server from the web proxy clients Kb/sec A high value could indicate a high data transfer from the web proxy client to the proxy server, which may result in congestion in network traffic.
Client_data_sent The rate at which the data bytes are sent by the proxy server to the web proxy clients Kb/sec A high value could indicate a high data transfer from the proxy server to the web proxy client, which may result in congestion in network traffic
Avg_response_time The mean response time in seconds to service a request Secs/req High network traffic, low server performance are some of the factors that cause this measure to increase.
Current_users The current number of users connected to the web proxy service. Number A high value can indicate an increase in the load on the web proxy service.
Dns_cache_hits This measure give the percentage of DNS domain names served from the proxy server cache, from the total DNS entries that are retrieved by the web proxy service. Percent A high value can indicate an increase in load on web proxy service.
Failing_requests The rate of request that have completed with some error. Reqs/Sec The high value indicates possible problems in the web proxy service.
Ftp_requests The number of ftp requests that have been made to the web proxy service Number A high value can indicate an increase in the load on the web proxy service.
Http_requests The number of http requests that have been made to the web proxy service. Number A high value can indicate an increase in the load on one or more applications, or a change in the characteristics of one or more applications.
Https_sessions The total number of HTTP-Secured sessions serviced by the SSL tunnel Number A high value can indicate an increase in the load on one or more applications, or a change in the characteristics of one or more applications on the server.
Thread_pool_active_sess The number of sessions being actively served by the pool of threads Number A high value can indicate an increase in the load on the web proxy service.
Thread_pool_failures The number of  requests rejected, since the thread pool was overcommitted Number The high value indicates a possible problem in the thread pool of the web proxy service.
Upstream_data_recvd The rate at which the data is received by the web proxy service from remote servers on the internet/proxy servers surrounding the current proxy server Kb/sec A high value can indicate an increase in the load on the web proxy service from one or more remote servers.
Upstream_data_sent The rate at which the data is sent by the web proxy service to remote servers on the  internet/proxy servers surrounding the current proxy server Kb/sec A high value can indicate an increase in the load of one or more remote servers.