F5 Applications Test

For each application 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 the applications 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 that is being load balanced by 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.

Measurements made by the test
Measurements	Description	Measurement Unit
Average new session	Indicates the average number of new sessions used by this application.	Sessions
Average concurrent session	Indicates the average number of concurrent sessions used by this application.	Sessions
Average server latency	Indicates the average time taken by the server to process the requests for this application.	Seconds
Average page load time	Indicates the average time taken by this application to load the pages.	Seconds
Average request rate	Indicates the average rate at which requests were received from the client to this application.	Kbps
Average response rate	Indicates the average rate at which response were received from the back end server to this application.	Kbps
Transactions	Indicates the total number of transactions processed for this application by the F5 system.	Number
Average transaction rate	Indicates the rate at which transactions were processed by the F5 system for this application.	Transactions/Sec
Client sampled transaction	Indicates the total number of client sampled transactions that were processed for this application.	Number
Maximum server latency	Indicates the maximum time taken by the server to process the requests for this application during the last measurement period.	Seconds
Maximum page load time	Indicates the maximum time taken by this application to load the web page.	Seconds