Agents Administration - Tests

Default Parameters for HttpTest The details of the Http test that emulates a user accessing a web server are provided below. Since this test can be executed from a location external to the web server, this test presents an unbiased external perspective of the state of the web server. This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the HttpTest The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed. This test emulates a user accessing a specific web page(s) on the target web server to determine the availability and responsiveness of the server. To enable this emulation, you need to configure the test with the URL of the web page that it should access. Specify this URL against the URL parameter. If required, you can even configure multiple URLs – one each for every web page that the test should attempt to access. If each URL configured requires special permissions for logging in, then, you need to configure the test with separate credentials for logging into every URL. Likewise, you need to provide instructions to the test on how to validate the content returned by every URL, and also set an encoding format for each URL. To enable administrators to easily configure the above per URL, eG Enterprise provides a special interface. To access this interface, click on the encircled ‘+’ button alongside the URL text box in the test configuration page. Alternatively, you can even click on the encircled ‘+’ button adjacent to the URL parameter in the test configuration page. To know how to use this special interface, click here. Whether any cookies being returned by the web server need to be saved locally and returned with subsequent requests need to be specified in the COOKIEFILE text box. The host on which a web proxy server is running (in case a proxy server is to be used) has to be specified in the PROXYHOST text box. Specify the port number on which the web proxy server is listening in the PROXYPORT text box. Specify the user name of the proxy server in the PROXYUSERNAME text box. Specify the password of the proxy server in the PROXYPASSWORD text box. Confirm the password by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD text box. In the TIMEOUT text box, specify the maximum duration (in seconds) for which the test will wait for a response from the server. The default timeout period is 30 seconds. DNS lookups can cause significant delays in rendering a webpage which will adversly impact the user experience. To avoid such delays, administrators may want to know how long the DNS server takes to respond to the requests. To help administrators in this regard, this test report the DNS_response_time measure when the REPORT DNS TIME flag is set to Yes. By default, this flag is set to No indicating that this test will not report the DNS_response_time measure by default. Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the Update button will 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. .