Re: [squid-users] Proxy performance monitoring

not necessarily a test lab setup, but something that sits on a client
machine, pulls down some static content, at regular intervals and then
report on the performance.

what I am trying to do is simulate the client experience so to speak.

cheers
Ivan

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> Ivan . wrote:
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> What am I looking for is something more along these lines.
>>
>>
>> http://www.webperformanceinc.com/library/files/proxy_server_performance.pdf
>>
>>
>> cheers
>> Ivan
>
> Oh.
>
> That paper describes requirements for a lab test. The good test software;
> polygraph etc, have not changed AFAIK so go with those mentioned if you want
> to.
>
> What your initial email seemed to describe was for monitoring live
> production installation performance.
>
> Be aware these are very different. Throwing lab data at a production server
> to a real remote web service is a very quick way to get yourself a huge
> bandwidth bill and annoyed phone calls.
>
> Amos
>
>
>>
>> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ivan . wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I recently implemented a new proxy system. I am looking at doing is
>>>> setting a periodical test that
>>>> goes out to the Internet, pull some content down and record the
>>>> relevant metrics.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> PC------------>Proxy----------->FW------------------>Internet---------------->Site-with-content
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Some sort of scheduled process on a PC, that pulls down some static
>>>> content from the same website, which is repeatable. The application
>>>> would then record metrics such as speed, time taken to download the
>>>> static content and log that.
>>>>
>>> Squid native access.log contains transfer duration and size metrics.
>>> Some other options not in the default format provide additional metrics
>>> if
>>> you need them.
>>>  See http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/logformat/ for a lit of log
>>> metrics.
>>>
>>> Otherwise the SNMP counters can be used, but they do not go down as fine
>>> grained as indvidual requests.
>>>
>>> Amos
>>> --
>>> Please be using
>>>  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.1
>>>
>
>
> --
> Please be using
>  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.1
>
Received on Sun May 02 2010 - 03:07:48 MDT