F5 Application Pool Members Test

For each Application pool member, this test reports the time taken by the applications to respond to requests when requested through each application pool member, reports the average load time of the applications accessed through each application pool member etc. Using this test, administrators can easily identify the pool members 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 pool member in the target traffic manager that is to be 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	Descriptions	Measurement Unit
Average server latency	Indicates the average time taken by the server to process the requests for this pool member.	Seconds
Average page load time	Indicates the average time taken by this pool member to process the requests.	Seconds
Average request rate	Indicates the average rate at which requests were made by this pool member.	KBps
Average response rate	Indicates the average rate at which response was provided for the requests made by this pool member.	KBps
Transactions	Indicates the total number of transactions processed for this pool member during the last measurement period.	Number
Average transaction rate	Indicates the average rate at which transactions were processed for this pool member.	Transactions/Sec
Client sampled transaction	Indicates the total number of client sampled transactions that were processed for this pool member during the last measurement period.	Number
Maximum server latency	Indicates the maximum time taken by the server to process the requests for this pool member.	Seconds
Maximum page load time	Indicates the maximum time taken by this application to load the page.	Seconds