Agilent Technologies N2620A Network Card User Manual


 
152 Agilent FrameScope Pro User’s Manual
5 Network Performance Analyzer Reference
Network Performance Autotest
The measurements taken during all these tests are:
Name Lookup The request/response time for converting a
name into an address.
PING Response The time it takes to perform an ICMP Echo test
on the device.
Autotest Results
While the test is running, the overall status of each server test is
displayed. As each test completes, it is given a performance
metric. When all of the tests are completed, the overall
performance metric is calculated and presented to the user.
Details about each test result may be viewed. As an example of
the details available, a web server test may require a DNS
lookup, a PING response, a first response, and a page read
operation. The status and time for each of these operations is
presented in the detailed view.
The Autotest may be left running in a loop with a programmable
delay between each iteration of the autotest. This feature may
be used to find problems that may only occur at certain times of
the day. In this case, the response times for each test are