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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. Virtual server 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 VTBrowserTest test helps administrators in this regard!

This test auto-discovers the browsers accessed by each user connected to a VMware Horizon View RDS farm, and for each browser, reports the number of sessions initiated and the number of processes running. This test also reports the resource utilization of each browser. Using this test, administrators can figure out the browser that is responsible for excessive resource utilization of a user.

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the VMware Horizon View RDS server being monitored.

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
No_of_sessions	Indicates the total number of user sessions initiated through this browser.	Number
No_of_processes	Indicates the number of processes running for this browser.	Number	The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the Process ID, Website Title, Website URL and the Website domain.
CPU_utilization	Indicates the percentage of CPU utilized by the processes running for this browser.	Percent	A high value for this measure is a cause of concern. Comparing the value of this measure across browsers helps administrators in identifying the browser that is utilizing too much of CPU resources. The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the session ID, Process ID, the CPU utilized by the process and the memory utilized by the process.
Memory_utilization	Indicates the percentage of memory utilized by the processes running for this browser.	Percent	A high value for this measure is a cause of concern. Comparing the value of this measure across browsers helps administrators in identifying the browser that is utilizing too much of memory resources. The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the session ID, Process ID, the CPU utilized by the process and the memory utilized by the process.