AppPerfect System Monitor 

Tutorial : Monitoring A Machine

This tutorial provides a brief introduction to the System Monitor product of the AppPerfect Test Studio using a set of hands-on practice exercises. This tutorial assumes you have successfully downloaded and installed AppPerfect Test Studio on your machine with the default options. Apart from this pre-requisite, this tutorial is self contained. Instructions given below are Windows-specific; if you are using a non-Windows machine, please use equivalent commands/instructions.

This document is divided into following sections

  1. Creating Common Project
  2. AppPerfect System Monitor

Within each section, multiple exercises are listed. Each exercise forms a logical unit which is expected to take no more than a few minutes to perform. All exercises use the PetStore demo application running inside Apache Tomcat. The modified PetStore application and Tomcat are both bundled with this product.

All exercises assume you have installed the product in C:\AppPerfect\TestStudio folder and will be referred as TESTSTUDIO_HOME henceforth in tutorial. If you have installed the product in some other folder, modify the instructions below appropriately.

This tutorial is not intended as a comprehensive training guide. Please refer to the product documentation for detailed information. However, this tutorial will give you a very good overview of the products and substantially improve your productivity with the product.

Creating Common Project

In AppPerfect Test Studio, you can create a common project and use the same project to perform tests in all the bundled products.

Exercise 1: Launch AppPerfect Test Studio

Action:

  1. Click on Start -> Programs ->AppPerfect Test Studio x.x.x -> AppPerfect Test Studio
  2. On launching AppPerfect Test Studio a Welcome page will be displayed. Go through the brief description given for each product and click on the product icon to view its perspective.
    NB: Welcome page is displayed only when Test Studio x.x.x is launched and last time no project was opened.
  3. To switch between different product perspectives click on corresponding project button in toolsbar.

Exercise 2: Creating a Common Project

Action:

  1. Launch the Common Project Wizard by clicking File ->New... menu option. The New Project wizard will be launched.
  2. Keep the default project name and location for the purpose of this exercise. We don't have to provide "Notification" settings. Click on the OK button.
  3. A confirmation message saying that the project is saved will be displayed. Click on the OK button.

Now using this common project we will create tests to demonstrate the functionalities of AppPerfect Load Tester product.

AppPerfect System Monitor

NB:Please follow the steps provided in the "Creating Common Project" section to first create a common project, then proceed further.

Exercise 1: Define a System Monitor project

Action:

  1. Once the common project is successfully created another dialog - Define Project Properties dialog - will be displayed.
  2. In this dialog you can specify system settings for local machine controller. These settings are required for system monitoring of local machine. In Username and Password field provide logged in user's name and password. Click on "Validate Connection" button to validate controller settings.
  3. Review the default settings for System Monitor and click the OK button to close the dialog.

Exercise 2: Adding new machines

Action:

  1. To add new controller, select any node in System Monitor tree and in context menu select "Add Machine..." to bring Add Machine dialog.
  2. In machine type select "Windows 2000/XP" and specify machine's IP address or host name in "IP Address" field.
  3. Specify username and password and click on "Validate Connection" button to validate controller settings. It should show message saying "Controller settings are valid.". Click on OK to close message box.
  4. Review the default settings new machine and click on OK button to close the dialog.

Exercise 3: Monitoring system resources

Action:

  1. To start monitoring, click on Project -> Run from the menubar.
  2. In the System Monitor view the tree shows the IP addresses which are being monitored. Below the IP Addresses, the various Attribute groups or Attributes are shown.
  3. On clicking on any node in the tree, the corresponding charts are shown in the System Monitor Results view. For multiple attributes, a tile of the charts is shown. Also for some attributes like process information in Windows, a table is shown with the information. This is not visible with multiple attributes in a tile.
  4. To stop system monitoring, click on Project -> Stop from menubar

Exercise 4: View and analyze result

Action:

  1. Once the monitoring is stopped "System Monitoring Results" will show the state of controller at the time monitoring was stopped.
  2. Navigate through System Monitor controllers to analyze system monitoring data when monitoring was stopped.