Run Dashboard

Vusers Details

Displays specific details for each Vuser in the performance test, and enables you to run or stop Vusers irrespective of their defined schedules. For user interface details, see View Vuser details.

Run Vusers

Enables you to run additional Vusers during the course of a performance test. That is, you can run Vusers that are not included in the test's original defined schedule. For details, see Run Vusers.

Load Generators

Enables you to manage the load generator in the performance test. For details, see Manage load generators.

Timeslot Duration

Enables you to extend or shorten the duration of the performance test. For user interface details, see Change timeslot duration.

Click to display the following options:

• Add Group. Enables you to add a Vuser group to a running performance test, or to edit Vuser group settings during a test run. For details, see Manage Vusers during a run.

• Edit Scheduler. Enables you to edit the scheduler during a test run. For user interface details, see Edit the scheduler during a test run.

• Rendezvous. Enables you to activate and deactivate rendezvous points defined in the Vuser scripts, and to set rendezvous policies that determine how the Controller handles Vusers at a rendezvous point. For user interface details, see Set rendezvous policies.

Search

Enables filtering the information being displayed in each of the views by the search string.

In the Graphs tree, click the Display graph button adjacent to the graph name to display a graph in the dashboard. The tree displays the configured graphs and merged graphs that are available.

• Indicates the graph is currently being displayed in the graph editor.

• Indicates an anomaly has occurred in the graph.

• Indicates a merged graph.

A maximum of 12 graphs can be displayed simultaneously.

You can merge graphs using the following methods:

• In the Graphs tree, select a graph and drag the graph by its anchor into an existing graph.

• In the Graphs tree, click the More action button adjacent to the graph name, and select Create merged graph > {Graph_name}.

The merged graph is displayed in the graph editor. Graphs that are merged are displayed in the Merged list in the graphs tree.

Note:

• The number in parentheses indicates the number of similar graphs that exist in the Graphs tree. For example, Throughput (2).

• The number indicates how many measurements were selected for each graph; to select a measurement you have to click it. For example, 1 X.

• The number at the bottom indicates how many measurements were selected out of the total number of measurements in all graphs. For example, 3/5 selected.

In the Graphs tree, click the More action button adjacent to the graph name, and select Rename.

In the Graphs tree, click the More action button adjacent to the graph name, and select Duplicate.

Adjust the time range displayed in graphs

In the timeline area, expand the Granularity list and set it to display the Last 3 minutes, Last 10 minutes, Last 1 hour, Whole Run, or Manual focus. The selected time range is displayed in the input panels located to the left of the range.

When set to Manual focus, drag the slider in the timeline to choose a start time and end time. You can also specify the time manually in the time string. The slider automatically reflects the values that you entered. You can also move the selection (maintaining the same granularity), and select a new range.

Note: To ensure the correct real time for running the performance test is displayed in the online graph, the time zone on the OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering Server and any external analysis database servers must all be synchronized.

Click the Settings button located above the timeline area, and set the following options:

• Time Display: The time displayed on the x-axis.

  • Relative to load test start. Displays the amount of time that has elapsed since the beginning of the test (in hours, minutes, and seconds).

  • Server clock. Displays the time on the OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering server clock.

  • Custom time zone. Displays the time according to the UTC time zone you select (this time is also displayed in the Messages view). Any changes to the time zone remain persistent in online and offline results.

• Timeline graphs. Turn the switch to on to display the graph timeline in the timeline area.

• Legend options. Displays the graph legend either as a list or a grid.

• Show measurements. You can show all measurements, only visible measurements from the legend, or only measurements that have anomalies.

• Anomaly sleeve: An on/off switch indicating whether to show anomaly sleeves globally. An anomaly sleeve highlights the section of the graph from the beginning of the anomaly until its end, for each anomaly. For details, see Detect anomalies.

Click the Settings button in the toolbar of a selected graph, and set the following options:

• Anomaly sleeve. An on/off switch indicating whether to show anomaly sleeves globally. An anomaly sleeve highlights the section of the graph from the beginning of the anomaly until its end, for each anomaly. For details, see Detect anomalies.

• Scale options. Scales measurements approximately so that they appear in the same range in the y-axis. This avoids measurements with smaller values appearing as flat lines with zero value. Select the desired scale:

  • Automatic. Displays each measurement in the graph in the scale that best suits it.
  • None. Displays each measurement's true values.

• Show measurements. You can show all measurements, only visible measurements from the legend, only measurements that have anomalies, or only the measurements set as favorite.

Hover over the graph name and click the Edit button to edit the name of the graph.

Click the Expand button in the graph's toolbar to maximize the selected graph. When you maximize the graph, you have access to the following controls in the Measurements pane:

• Show. The measurements displayed in the selected graph. You can select All, Only visible, Only with anomalies, or Only favorites.

• . Drag up or down to resize the graph area and the measurements grid.

• . Select and rearrange measurement details in the grid columns. For details, see Measurement details.

• . Search for measurements by name in the legend.

• . Displays the measurement in the graph.

• . Hides the measurement from the graph.

• . Displays the measurement in bold in the graph.

• <measurement color>. Click to open the color selector, and choose a different color to display the measurement in the graph.

• Show only me. Displays only the selected measurement and hides the others from the graph.

• . Select to save the measurement as a favorite.

Minimize a graph

Click the Contract button to minimize the graph and return to the graphs pane which displays all the selected graphs.

The measurement name. A warning icon appears for measurements that contain an anomaly.

Note: IP addresses for over firewall monitors (MOFW) and load generator hosts (OFW) display the IP address for the MI Listener and not the actual host IP address.

Enables you to move to the first, last, or a specific graph measurements page.

Note: Displayed only for graphs that have at least 20 measurements.

The Vuser group name.

The number of Vusers that are down.

The number of Vusers that are ready to be initialized and are waiting for an available load generator, or are transferring files to the load generator. The Vusers run when the conditions set in their scheduling attributes are met.

The number of Vusers that are being initialized on the host machine.

The number of Vusers that have already performed the init section of the script and are ready to run.

The number of Vusers that are running. The Vuser script is being run on a host machine.

The number of Vusers that have arrived at the rendezvous and are waiting to be released.

The number of Vusers that are finishing their current iteration before exiting.

The number of Vusers that have finished running, or have been stopped, and are exiting now.

The number of Vusers that have been paused.

The number of Vusers that have been stopped manually.

The number of Vusers that have finished running. The script passed.

The number of Vusers that have finished running. The script failed.

The number of Vusers for which a problem occurred.

The transaction name.

For details on transaction names, see Transaction naming conventions.

The number of times the transaction passed.

The number of times the transaction failed.

The number of times the transaction stopped.

The transactions success rate percentage.

The number of times per second the transaction has run.

Group by

Enables grouping messages by Code, Message, Host, Script, or Vuser.

After you have selected a grouping, the grid displays a drilled down view. You can click a link to filter grid data by the selected value. For example, if data is grouped by Code and you drill down on a specific code, the grid displays all messages for the selected code.

Note:

• In online screen and offline view:

  If None is selected in the Group by filter, then Sort by and Change sort order are enabled; otherwise Sort by and Change sort order are not available.

• In online screen only:

  If None is selected in the Group by filter and Sort by is selected by any selection other than Time, then only the first 500 rows are displayed.

Enables filtering the messages by a specific message type:

• Errors. Usually indicates that the script failed.

• Warnings. Indicates that the Vuser encountered a problem, but that the test continued to run.

• Notifications. Provides runtime information.

• Debug. Sent only if the debugging feature is enabled in the Controller. To enable the feature, select Tools > OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering Controller Options > Debug Information.

Default: All Types

Enables sorting column values by Time, Type, Code, Message, Host, Script, or Vuser.

After selecting a sort value, the latest 50 messages are displayed on the page. You can scroll to see additional pages (each page displays the next 50 messages).

Click the Change sort order button to sort the selected column values in ascending or descending order.

Note: When you change the sort order in the online screen, scrolling is limited to displaying the first 500 rows only, according to the selected sort order. Offline view retains full sorting functionality, enabling you to scroll all messages (in rows of 50).

Select a row in the grid and click Vuser Log. The Vuser activity log opens, enabling you to view a list of messages for each Vuser. The log contains the following information:

• Activity log for Vuser. The selected Vuser whose ID is being displayed.

• Refresh. Enables you to refresh the log.

• Download log. Enables you to download the log.

• Log Message area. Displays a list of all messages received for the selected Vuser.

• Snapshot. Generates a snapshot (a graphical representation of the Web page) of the point in the test run where an error occurred. Before using this feature, you must enable the Generate snapshot on error option in the script's runtime settings. For details on the runtime settings, see Configure runtime settings.

Note:

• Rows cannot be selected when data is grouped.

• This option is not available in the offline results view.

Clears all messages.

Note: This option is not available in the offline results view.

Select the refresh option:

• Refresh All. Displays the latest 50 messages on a page. You can scroll to see additional pages (each page displays the next 50 messages).

• 500 Rows. Displays the 500 top rows according to the selected sort options.

Note: This option is not available in the offline results view.

The time the message was generated.

Note: Displays the time according to the UTC time zone if Time Display > Custom time zone was selected in the Graphs view. For details, see Time Display.

The type of message. For details, see Type above.

The received message. To copy a message to the clipboard, right-click the message and select Copy to clipboard.

The host that generated the message. You can click a host link to group messages by the selected host value.

The total number of messages received for the selected grouping.

Note: Displayed only when messages are grouped.

Displays the total number of Vusers for the selected grouping.

Note: Displayed only when messages are grouped.