Calendar Event Operations Test
Calendars in Microsoft Exchange Online is used to create appointments, organize meetings, view group schedules and to perform calendar event operations such as creating calendar events, listing of events, reading of events, updating the events and deleting the events.
The Calendar Event Operations test reports whether/not the calendar event operations were successfully performed by the user in Microsoft Exchange Online. Using this test, the administrators can easily identify which calendar event operation consumes more time.
Target of the test : Exchange Online
Agent deploying the test : A remote agent
Outputs of the test : One set of results for the Office 365 tenant being monitored.
Parameters | Description |
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Test period |
How often should the test be executed. |
Host |
The host for which the test is to be configured. By default, this is portal.office.com |
Port |
The port at which the specified Host listens to. By default, this is NULL. |
Tenant Name |
Azure AD certificate-based authentication (CBA) enables customers to allow or require users to authenticate with X.509 certificates against their Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for applications and browser sign-in. This test requires a valid X.509 certificate, so that it can securely access the target tenant and its resources. For this purpose, you should do the following:
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O365 User Name, O365 Password, and Confirm Password |
For execution, this test requires the privileges of an O365 user who is vested with the View-Only Audit Logs permission. Configure the credentials of such a user against O365 User Name and O365 Password text boxes. Confirm the password by retyping it in the Confirm Password text box. While you can use the credentials of any existing O365 user with the afore-said privileges, it is recommended that you create a special user for monitoring purposes using the Office 365 portal and use the credentials of that user here. To know how to manually create a new user using the Office 365 portal and assign the required privileges to that user, refer to |
O365 Domain |
To have a personalized business email address, team site address, or even an account name, you set up a domain name with Office 365. A domain is a unique name that appears after the @ sign in email addresses, and after www. in web addresses. It typically takes the form of your organization's name and a standard Internet suffix, such as yourbusiness.com or stateuniversity.edu. Office 365 gives you an initial domain name to use. By default, this will be of the format: *.onmicrosoft.com - eg., abc.onmicrosoft.com. To enable this test to pull metrics, you need to configure the test with the name of this initial domain. Therefore, configure the O365 Domain parameter with the name of the initial domain. To know what is your Office 365 initial domain name, do the following:
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Domain Name, Domain User Name, Domain Password, and Confirm Password |
These parameters are applicable only if the eG agent needs to communicate with the Office 365 portal via a Proxy server. In this case, in the Domain Name text box, specify the name of the Windows domain to which the eG agent host belongs. In the Domain User Name text box, mention the name of a valid domain user with login rights to the eG agent host. Provide the password of that user in the Domain Password text box and confirm that password by retyping it in the Confirm Password text box. On the other hand, if the eG agent is not behind a Proxy server, then you need not disturb the default setting of these parameters. By default, these parameters are set to none. |
Proxy Host, Proxy Port, Proxy User Name, Proxy Password and Confirm Password |
These parameters are applicable only if the eG agent needs to communicate with the Office 365 portal via a Proxy server. In this case, provide the IP/host name and port number of the Proxy server that the eG agent should use in the Proxy Host and Proxy Port parameters, respectively. If the Proxy server requires authentication, then specify the credentials of a valid Proxy user against the Proxy User Name and Proxy Password text boxes. Confirm that password by retyping it in the Confirm Password text box. If the Proxy server does not require authentication, then specify none against the Proxy User Name, Proxy Password, and Confirm Password text boxes. On the other hand, if the eG agent is not behind a Proxy server, then you need not disturb the default setting of any of the Proxy-related parameters. By default, these parameters are set to none. |
Measurement | Description | Measurement Unit | Interpretation | ||||||
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Create event status |
Indicates the status whether/not the calendar event was successfully created by the user in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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The numeric values that correspond to these measure values are as follows:
Note: By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate whether/not the calendar event was successfully created by the user in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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Time taken to create event |
Indicates the time taken for creating an event in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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A low value is desired for this measure. |
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List event status |
Indicates the status whether/not the calendar event created by the user was successfully listed in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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The numeric values that correspond to these measure values are as follows:
Note: By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate whether/not the calendar event created by the user was successfully listed in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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Time taken to list event |
Indicates the time taken for listing an event in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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A low value is desired for this measure. |
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Read event status |
Indicates the status whether/not the calendar event created by the user was successfully read by the user in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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The numeric values that correspond to these measure values are as follows:
Note: By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate whether/not the calendar event created by the user was successfully listed in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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Time taken to read event |
Indicates the time taken for reading an event in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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A low value is desired for this measure. |
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Update event status |
Indicates the status whether/not the calendar event created by the user was successfully updated in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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The numeric values that correspond to these measure values are as follows:
Note: By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate whether/not the calendar event created by the user was successfully listed in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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Time taken to update event |
Indicates the time taken for updating an event in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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A low value is desired for this measure. |
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Delete event status |
Indicates the status whether/not the calendar event created by the user was successfully deleted in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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The numeric values that correspond to these measure values are as follows:
Note: By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate whether/not the calendar event created by the user was successfully listed in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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Time taken to delete event |
Indicates the time taken for deleting an event in Microsoft Exchange Online. |
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A low value is desired for this measure. |