Default Parameters for WebTransactionTest

This test auto-discovers the web sites on the IIS web server, and reports the rate at which each web site is receiving requests, the total number of requests processed and the number of requests that are successfully processed by each web site. In the process, this test also captures the response codes returned by each web site in real-time. By analyzing these codes, administrators can identify the web site that is encountering more number of errors which in turn will slow down the transactions.

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

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

• By default, the WEBSITE parameter is set to none. This implies that the test monitors all web sites, by default. If you want the test to monitor a specific web site alone, then specify that WEBSITE name here.

Note:

If this test is configured with a web site name, then all other web site-related tests of the target IIS web server will report metrics for this web site only.

• By default, the SHOW TOTAL REQUESTS DD flag is set to No. This implies that by default, detailed metrics will not be available for the Total Requests processed measure of this test. To enable detailed diagnosis for this measure, you can set this flag to Yes.

• By default, the SHOW SUCCESS REQUESTS DD flag is set to No. This implies that by default, detailed metrics will not be available for the Requests processed successfully measure of this test. To enable detailed diagnosis for this measure, you can set this flag to Yes.

• Specify the full path to directory on the target IIS/IIS SSL web server that stores the log files in the IIS LOGS PATH text box. By default, this is set to none.

• DD FREQUENCY refers to the frequency with which detailed diagnosis measures are to be generated for this test. For instance, if you set to 1:1, it means that detailed measures will be generated every time this test runs, and also every time the test detects a problem.

• Once the above value is 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.