OneDrive File Operations Test
OneDrive for Business lets you store and protect your files, share them with others, and get to them from anywhere on all your devices. The files that you stored in OneDrive for Business storage will automatically sync on multiple devices. Therefore, you can access and work on the same document in multiple locations. OneDrive for Business provides relatively easy access to cloud storage space, allowing options to share content with other users. Users with access to the files can download the files at any given point in time and work on it offline.
If any of the file operations fail or take longer than usual, it can cause critical changes to be lost. Consequently, user productivity will be badly affected and user confidence in OneDrive for Business will be shaken. This is why, it is imperative that administrators spot failures/slowness in such operations well before users notice. This is exactly what the OneDrive File Operations test helps administrators achieve!
Periodically, this test emulates a file upload, download, and delete operation, and reports the status and time taken by each operation. In the process, the test proactively alerts administrators to the failure/slowness in a file operation, thereby enabling them to investigate and resolve the bottleneck before users complain.
Target of the test : Microsoft OneDrive For Business
Agent deploying the test : A remote agent
Outputs of the test : One set of results for the monitored Microsoft OneDrive For Business.
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Test period |
How often should the test be executed |
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Host |
The host for which the test is to be configured. By default, this is portal.office.com |
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O365 User Name, O365 Password, and Confirm Password |
For execution, this test requires the privileges of an O365 user who has been assigned the Service support admin and SharePoint admin roles and is vested with the View-Only Audit Logs permission. Configure the credentials of such a user against O365 User Name and O365 Password text boxes. Confirm the password by retyping it in the Confirm Password text box. While you can use the credentials of any existing O365 user with the afore-said privileges, it is recommended that you create a special user for monitoring purposes using the Office 365 portal and use the credentials of that user here. To know how to create a new user using the Office 365 portal and assign the required privileges to that user, refer to Creating a New User in the Office 365 Portal. |
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O365 Domain |
To have a personalized business email address, team site address, or even an account name, you set up a domain name with Office 365. A domain is a unique name that appears after the @ sign in email addresses, and after www. in web addresses. It typically takes the form of your organization's name and a standard Internet suffix, such as yourbusiness.com or stateuniversity.edu. Office 365 gives you an initial domain name to use. By default, this will be of the format: *.onmicrosoft.com - eg., abc.onmicrosoft.com. To enable this test to pull metrics, you need to configure the test with the name of this initial domain. Therefore, configure the O365 Domain parameter with the name of the initial domain. To know what is your Office 365 initial domain name, do the following:
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Location to Upload File |
This test emulates a file upload operation. To enable the test to perform that operation, specify the OneDrive location to which the test should upload the file. Example: https://docshare.onedrive.com |
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File Download Location |
This test emulates a file download operation. To enable the test to perform that operation, specify the location on your local host to which the test should download the file. Example: C:\\dochelp |
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File upload status |
Indicates whether/not the test was able to upload the file successfully |
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The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are listed in the table below:
Note: Typically, this test reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of a file upload operation. In the graph of this measure however, the same is indicated using the numeric equivalents only. |
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File upload time |
Indicates the time taken for the file upload operation to complete. |
Seconds |
An unusually high value for this measure is indicative of a bottleneck when uploading a file. |
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File download status |
Indicates whether/not the test was able to download the file successfully |
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The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are listed in the table below:
Note: Typically, this test reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of a file download operation. In the graph of this measure however, the same is indicated using the numeric equivalents only. |
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File download time |
Indicates the time taken for the file download operation to complete. |
Seconds |
An unusually high value for this measure is indicative of a bottleneck when checking out. |
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File deletion status |
Indicates whether/not the test was able to delete the file successfully |
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The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are listed in the table below:
Note: Typically, this test reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of a file delete operation. In the graph of this measure however, the same is indicated using the numeric equivalents only. |
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File deletion time |
Indicates the time taken for the file delete operation to complete. |
Seconds |
An unusually high value for this measure is indicative of a bottleneck when deleting a file. |
