eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by AspTest

The AspTest monitors the performance of an IIS web server for servicing requests to Active Server Pages (ASPs). The measures made by the test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Request_rate The rate of requests for ASP pages during the last measurement period Reqs/Sec

 

Transaction_rate The rate of transactions started per second Trans/Sec  
Error_rate Rate of errors during ASP processing per second Errors/Sec  
Data_rcvd_rate The rate of data being received by the web server for ASP processing Kbytes/Sec  
Data_xmit_rate The rate of data being transmitted by the web server in response to ASP requests during the last measurement period Kbytes/Sec  
Execution_time The execution time of the last request in seconds. To determine where the bottleneck is, compare the execution time with the wait time. Secs If the wait time is low, but execution time is high, this indicates that the application logic in the ASP pages could be causing the high execution time. On the other hand, if wait time is high and execution time is low, this indicates a server-side bottleneck (e.g., due to too few processing threads).
Wait_time The amount of time that the last request had to wait for service Secs During ideal operation, the wait time should be near 0. If this value is high, it indicates that many requests are being queued for ASP processing.
Current_executions The number of requests being currently executed by the ASP engine. Number  
Current_queue_length The number of requests that are currently waiting for service Number Ideally, this metric should be 0. A consistent non-zero value is an indicator of a server-side processing bottleneck.
Failed_requests The number of requests that failed during the last measurement period. This includes authorization failures and rejections. Number  
Rejected_requests The number of requests that were rejected during the last measurement period Number  
Pending_transactions The number of transactions awaiting processing during the last measurement period Number  
Transaction_commits The number of transactions that were committed during the last measurement period Number  
Transaction_aborts The number of transactions that were aborted during the last measurement period Number A very high value of this measure could indicate a server-processing bottleneck.