Jboss Server Test

This test monitors the requests handled by the JBoss server.

Target of the test : A JBoss application server

Agent deploying the test : An internal agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for every JBoss server monitored.

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameter Description

Test period

How often should the test be executed.

Host

The host for which the test is to be configured.

Port

The port number at which the specified host listens to.

Measurement Mode

This test can extract metrics from JBoss using either of the following mechanisms:

  • By deploying the EgJBossAgent.sar and egjboss.war files on the target JBoss server;
  • By contacting the Java runtime (JRE) of JBoss viaJMX

To configure the test to usethe EgJBossAgent.sar and egjboss.war files, first, select the War File option. Then, refer to the How to Monitor JBoss Application Server Using eG Enterprise? chapter to know how to deploy these files on the target JBoss server.

On the other hand, if you want the test to use JMX instead, then first, select the jmx option. Then, follow the procedure detailed in the How to Monitor JBoss Application Server Using eG Enterprise? chapter to configure the test to use jmx. By default, the jmx option is chosen here.

JNDIName

This parameter appears only if the Measurement Mode is set to jmx. The JNDIName is a lookup name for connecting to the JMX connector. By default, this is jmxrmi. If you have registered the JMX connector in the RMI registry using a different lookup name, then you can change this default value to reflect the same.

JMX Remote Port

This parameter appears only if the Measurement Mode is set to jmx. Here, specify the port at which the jmx listens for requests from remote hosts. Ensure that you specify the same port that you configured in the management.properties file of the target JBoss server (refer to the How to Monitor JBoss Application Server Using eG Enterprise? chapter for more details).

JMX User, JMX Password, and Confirm Password

These parameters appear only if the Measurement Mode is set to jmx. If JMX requires authentication only (but no security), then ensure that the JMX User and JMX Password parameters are configured with the credentials of a user with read-write access to JMX. To know how to create this user, refer to the How to Monitor JBoss Application Server Using eG Enterprise? chapter. Confirm the password by retyping it in the Confirm Password text box.

SSL

This parameter appears only if the Measurement Mode is set to War File. Indicate Yes if the JBoss server is SSL-enabled.

URL

This parameter appears only if the Measurement Mode is set to War File. Specify the URL to be accessed to collect metrics pertaining to the JBoss server. By default, this test connects to a managed JBoss server and attempts to obtain the metrics of interest by accessing the local Mbeans of the server. Accordingly, by default, this parameter is set to http://<JBossServerIP>:<JbossServerPort>.

JMX Provider

This parameter appears only if the Measurement Mode is set to jmx. This test uses a JMX Provider to access the MBean attributes of the JBoss server and collect metrics. Specify the package name of this JMX Provider here. By default, this is set to com.sun.jmx.remote.protocol.

Timeout

Specify the duration (in seconds) for which this test should wait for a response from the JBoss server. If there is no response from the server beyond the configured duration, the test will timeout. By default, this is set to 240 seconds.
Measurements made by the test
Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation

Request rate

Indicates the rate of requests to the server during the last measurement period.

Reqs/Sec

With the advent of HTTP/1.1 multiple requests can be transmitted over the same TCP connection. The ratio of requests per connection can provide an idea of the effectiveness of the HTTP 1.1 protocol.

Data transmit rate

Indicates the rate at which the data was transmitted by the server during the last measurement period.

KB/Sec

A large increase in the data transmission rate can be indicative of an increase in the popularity of one or more web sites hosted on the server.

Data received rate

Indicates the rate at which data was received by the server during the last measurement period.

KB/Sec

An increase in this value is indicative of an increase in user requests to the server.

Avg request processing time

Indicates the average time taken by the server to process requests.

MSecs

A high value may be an indication of slow performance of the server.

Max request processing time

Indicates the maximum time taken by the server to process requests.

MSecs

 

Error rate

Indicates the rate at which errors were encountered by the server in the last measurement period.

Errors/Sec