2.1 Functions of PFM - Agent for Service Response
PFM - Agent for Service Response is a program for measuring the performance of Internet services, such as their response times and data transfer throughputs. PFM - Agent for Service Response supports the following types of measurements for Internet services:
Types of measurements |
Description |
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Measurement of Internet services |
Response performance of Internet services can be measured. Data to be acquired includes response times after transmission of requests to HTTP, SMTP, and other servers and data transfer throughputs. |
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Measurement of Web transactions |
Response performance of HTTP(S) services can be measured. You can not only measure a pair of request and response, but also define and measure as a Web transaction a series of tasks consisting of multiple HTTP(S) requests and responses. This measurement can be used to measure not only Web servers, but also Web applications that require logon. |
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Measurement of IE scenarios |
Response performance of HTTP(S) services that users experience when using Internet Explorer can be measured. You can define a series of tasks consisting of multiple operations in Internet Explorer as an IE scenario and measure it. For details about the difference between measurement of Web transactions and measurement of IE scenarios, see 2.2 Selecting the type of measurement for Web server monitoring. |
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Measurement of user-defined services |
Response performance of services other than the standard Internet services supported by PFM - Agent for Service Response can be measured. You must provide a program for measuring the response time or other measurements of the target service and register it as a user-defined command. |
Each type is described below in terms of the mechanism of service measurement, the measurement items, and the measurement conditions.