F5 Application URLs Test

For each URL through which applications are accessed by the end users, this test reports the time taken by the applications that are load balanced by the target traffic manager to respond to requests, reports the average load time of the application etc. Using this test, administrators can easily identify URL segment groups that are adversely impacting user experience with the web application. This way, you can identify the transactions to the web application that are slow.

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 URL of the Application that is load balanced through the target traffic manager

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.
URL Grouping Count	This test groups URLs based on the URL segments configured for monitoring and reports aggregated response time metrics for every group. Using this parameter, you can specify a comma- separated list of URL segment numbers based on which the pages are to be grouped. URL segments are the parts of a URL (after the base URL) or path delimited by slashes. So if you had the URL: http://www.eazykart.com/web/shopping/login.jsp , then, http://www.eazykart.com will be the base URL or domain, /web will be the first URL segment, /shopping will be the second URL segment, and /login.jsp will be the third URL segment. By default, this parameter is set to 3. This default setting, when applied to the sample URL provided above, the test will report metrics for the descriptor /login.jsp. If you set this value to 2, then the test will report metrics for the descriptor /shopping.

Measurements made by the test
Measurements	Description	Measurement Unit
Average server latency	Indicates the average time taken by the server to process the requests for this application URL.	Seconds
Average page load time	Indicates the average time taken by the server to load the pages of this application URL.	Seconds
Average request rate	Indicates the average rate at which requests were made to access this application URL.	KBps
Average response rate	Indicates the averagse rate at which response was provided for the requests made to access this application URL.	KBps
Transactions	Indicates the total number of transactions processed for this application URL.	Number
Average transaction rate	Indicates the average rate at which transactions were processed for this application URL.	Transactions/Sec
Client sampled transaction	Indicates the total number of transactions that were sampled by the client for this application URL.	Number
Maximum server latency	Indicates the maximum time taken to process the requests for this application URL.	Seconds
Maximum page load time	Indicates the maximum time taken by this application URL to load the page.	Seconds