Web server torturing

[Damian Myerscough]

Hi,

> 1- A script was written which uses apache's ab tool to stress the server. Script will run on the web-server host.

There is a tool available for benchmarking apache called: ab or ab2
which is apache benchmark to use it you simply issue:

./ab -n 1000 -c 100 http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/index.htm

The above will simulate 100 users accessing the website 1000 times

On 07/12/06, Nils Breunese <nils at breun.nl> wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 21:07 -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 18:02 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> >>> Before we get started I'm hoping to get
> >>> cacti set up for a good baseline.
> >>
> >> Not to denigrate Cacti but you might want to take a look at
> >> Zabbix... It
> >> was recently included in FE (I did the review).  It's a little bit
> >> trickier to set up but the polling is done using a server & agent
> >> written in C, as opposed to Cacti which is largely PHP.  I've been
> >> working on a Zabbix install at work and I poll a number of variables
> >> every 5 sec.
> >
> > cacti in php doesn't matter. It's the snmp interface in cacti which
> > does
> > the tricks and that's all done using snmp libs. It also has the
> > advantage of just being another use of snmp instead of being it's own
> > whole thing.
>
> ZABBIX also uses the snmp-libs for the optional SNMP agents. I use
> ZABBIX to monitor all of my servers and it suits me pretty nicely.
> The ZABBIX web frontend is in PHP, just like Cacti's. See http://
> www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/install_requirements_software.php for more
> info on the software requirements for ZABBIX.
>
> Nils Breunese.
>
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