F5 Application Client Subnets Test

A client subnet is a group of client IPs that are within the same network.

For each pre-defined client subnet, this test reports the time taken by the applications that are load balanced by the target traffic manager to respond to requests when requested through each client subnet, reports the average load time of the application accessed through each client subnet etc. Using this test, administrators can easily identify the application client subnets that were impacting the user experience with the web applications load balanced by the traffic manager.

Target of the test : A Big-IP/F5 Local Traffic Manager

Agent deploying the test : A remote agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for each application client subnet through which traffic flow to the applications load balanced by the target traffic manager is monitored.

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameter Description

Test Period

How often should the test be executed

Host

The IP address of the traffic manager

Port

The port number on which the traffic manager is listening. By default, this is NULL.

Measurements made by the test
Measurements Description Measurement Unit Interpretation

Average server latency

Indicates the average time taken by the server to process the requests for this client subnet.

Seconds

 

Average page load time

Indicates the average time taken by this client subnet to process the requests.

Seconds

 

Average request rate

Indicates the average rate at which requests were made by this client subnet.

Kbps

 

Average response rate

Indicates the average rate at which response was provided for the requests made by this client subnet.

Kbps

 

Transactions

Indicates the total number of transactions processed for this client subnet during the last measurement period.

Number

 

Average transaction rate

Indicates the average rate at which transactions were processed for this client subnet during the last measurement period.

Transactions/Sec