Agents Administration - Tests

Default Parameters for GenericLogonSimTest This test emulates a user logging into a web application being monitored by the Web App Simulator tool. In the process, the test reports the availability and responsiveness of the web application. The activities that were successful and that failed are measured and reported along with the total simulation time. Additionally, the test also captures failures (if any) at each step of the simulation. Using the insights provided by this test, administrators can proactively detect logon slowness/failures and precisely pinpoint the root-cause of the anomaly. This way, web administrators are enabled to isolate the probable pain-points of their web application, even before users begin to actively use the web application. This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the GenericLogonSimTest test. The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed. By default, this is 15 minutes. By default, eG Enterprise auto-disccovers the scripts that are available for simulation. The scripts that are auto-discovered will be listed in the SCRIPT NAME list box. You can select one/more scripts from this list for monitoring. eG Enterprise is also capable of monitoring the scripts that are recorded and exported by more than one user using a single component. For this purpose, an icon is provided against this parameter. Clicking on the icon will open the CHOOSE SCRIPT NAME pop up window. Using the pop up window, select the user who has recorded one/more scripts to be monitored from the User Name list. The scripts corresponding to that user will be populated in the Script File text box. Select the script and click the Submit button. You are allowed to choose more than one User Name:Script File combination. Specify the exact path to the script that has been recorded in the XML LOCATION text box. By default, the script should be placed in <eG_INSTALL_DIR>\lib\Synthetic folder. For example, if a script named ACME_AppSimulation has been recorded, then you should specify the location as <eG_INSTALL_DIR>\lib\Synthetic\ACME_AppSimulation.xml. You can even specify a comma-separated list of scripts for monitoring. The simulator needs to run in the account of a user who has local administrator rights on the simulation end point - i.e., the system on which the external agent is installed. Specify the name of this user in the CONSOLE USERNAME text box. This user should also be logged in at all times for the simulator to run continuously. Specify the domain to which the CONSOLE USERNAME belongs to in the CONSOLE DOMAIN text box. By default, none is specified against this parameter. By default, the SUCCESS SCREENSHOT REQUIRED flag is set to No. If this flag is set to Yes, then , if all the transactions for the script were completed successfully, an additional screenshot will be offered for the Transaction availability measure of the Total descriptor reported by this test. For the logon simulation to be successful on the simulation endpoint at all times, it is important for the Windows user session to always remain ‘active’. To this effect, this flag is set to Yes by default. The DD FREQUENCY refers to the frequency with which detailed diagnosis measures are to be generated for this test. The default is 1:1. This indicates that, by default, detailed measures will be generated everytime this test runs, and also every time the test detects a problem. You can modify this frequency, if you so desire. Also, if you intend to disable the detailed diagnosis capability for this test, you can do so by specifying none against DD FREQUENCY. 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.