Coutners and listings....
Brian Donahue
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Hi Danish,
Windows provide a wealth of performance objects on your system. In
addition, a lot of applications install their own counters. For Example,
installing ANTS Load will add the ANTS:Host, ANTS:Mediator, and ANTS:Master
counters so that you can monitor the number or virtual clients running in a
test scenario.
A server administrator is usually concerned with resources such as disk
space, RAM, and the amount of strain the IIS or other web server is under.
The default performance counters added by ANTS Load are a good start. If you
see memory usage or processor load at an unreasonable level, then you may
consider adding some more performance counters like the ones in the Active
Server Pages performance object. If you use a lot of ADO .net in the web
application, you will want to look into .NET CLR Data.
Spike tests allow you to simulate a rush of users. You can run a test for
a certain number of minutes with a certain number of users, then specify
that you want an increased number of users for a short time expressed as a
percentage of the total test time.
ANTS Load does use XML, but we don't provide a handy way of getting at it.
It gets written somewhere in the %tmp% folder before the XML is fed to a
stylesheet and displayed as an HTML page. So theoretically you could capture
the XML by getting it from %TMP%, but that would be a bit messy!
Regards,
Brian Donahue
Red Gate Technical Support
"Danish Hussain" <danish.hussain@ecommlink.com> wrote in message
news:TRzPHGmfEHA.1224@server53...
> 1. I need to obtain a list of all the counters that are
> available....atleast some subset of listing. (from .net clr data to wmi
> object)
> 2. Need an explanation of difference between steady test and spike test.
> 3. I need to know when I have the results....is there an xml feed
> generated...if so how do I get to it. I'm doing some reporting in word
and
> pdf format that involves certain subset of the results that are generated
by
> ants.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Danish.
>
>
Windows provide a wealth of performance objects on your system. In
addition, a lot of applications install their own counters. For Example,
installing ANTS Load will add the ANTS:Host, ANTS:Mediator, and ANTS:Master
counters so that you can monitor the number or virtual clients running in a
test scenario.
A server administrator is usually concerned with resources such as disk
space, RAM, and the amount of strain the IIS or other web server is under.
The default performance counters added by ANTS Load are a good start. If you
see memory usage or processor load at an unreasonable level, then you may
consider adding some more performance counters like the ones in the Active
Server Pages performance object. If you use a lot of ADO .net in the web
application, you will want to look into .NET CLR Data.
Spike tests allow you to simulate a rush of users. You can run a test for
a certain number of minutes with a certain number of users, then specify
that you want an increased number of users for a short time expressed as a
percentage of the total test time.
ANTS Load does use XML, but we don't provide a handy way of getting at it.
It gets written somewhere in the %tmp% folder before the XML is fed to a
stylesheet and displayed as an HTML page. So theoretically you could capture
the XML by getting it from %TMP%, but that would be a bit messy!
Regards,
Brian Donahue
Red Gate Technical Support
"Danish Hussain" <danish.hussain@ecommlink.com> wrote in message
news:TRzPHGmfEHA.1224@server53...
> 1. I need to obtain a list of all the counters that are
> available....atleast some subset of listing. (from .net clr data to wmi
> object)
> 2. Need an explanation of difference between steady test and spike test.
> 3. I need to know when I have the results....is there an xml feed
> generated...if so how do I get to it. I'm doing some reporting in word
and
> pdf format that involves certain subset of the results that are generated
by
> ants.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Danish.
>
>
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