topic Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools in Operating System - HP-UX

Web Server performance measurement software tools

Shivkumar — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:14:07 GMT

Dear Sirs,

I remember for measuring performance and hits of a web server the "WebTrend" software is being used on sun solaris platform etc (I never used myself). Probably it may be available on hpux boxes also.

My question is what are the other software tools being used to measure the performance and hits for the web servers like HP Apache and iPlanet etc ?

I believe we just provide the input file of the web server such as "access log" to the tool.

Does HP's OpenView has this capability ?

Thanks,
Shiv

Thanks,
Shiv

Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools

Arunvijai_4 — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 22:39:57 GMT

Hi Shiv,

There are many Opensource tools available for performance testing, you can use Apache JMeter

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

It is just a Java application, you can download and use it on your HP-UX to measure performance.

-Arun

Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools

Arunvijai_4 — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:33:35 GMT

Hi Shiv, Another web site testing tool,

http://hammerhead.sourceforge.net/

-Arun

Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools

Muthukumar_5 — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 00:54:06 GMT

Do you mean benchmarking tools or log file analysers?

Benchmarking tools will generate http requests (dump) to web server and find out the performance.

Log file analysers will use access.log file to give web access usage. So both are different.

You can get polygraph (opensource) for benchmarking. awstatus for apache log file analysis.

-Muthu

Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools

Shivkumar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 01:04:16 GMT

I need "log file analyzers". I want to give input as "access log" of the web server and need the response time of the http requests.

Regards,
Shiv

Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools

Shivkumar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 01:06:32 GMT

If anyone has shell or perl script to parse the "access log" that would be great.

Regards,
Shiv

Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools

Arunvijai_4 — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 01:10:48 GMT

Hi Shiv, You can use awstat to analyse Apache log files and see the stats. More information is available at,

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

-Arun

Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools

Arunvijai_4 — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:43:57 GMT

Hi Shiv, there are some more log file analyzers available to use, here is one http://www.analog.cx/ This is a free opensource utility written in C.

-Arun

Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools

Arunvijai_4 — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 06:37:00 GMT

Hi Shiv, some more tools and comparison among them

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_compare.html

-Arun

Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:23:04 GMT

Shalom Shiv,

Webtrends itself is a log analyzer. It runs on Sun and Windows. All it needs for most of its traffic analysis is the log files. Its not necessary that it run on the server the web server is running on.

All of the tools listed above are log analyzers. If they don't run right on your platform of choice, merely transship(ftp whatever) the logs to an OS of choice.

SEP

Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools

Ted Buis — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:52:15 GMT

I would be surprised if there wasn't an OpenView product that could help you, but why not take advantage of HP Openview Sales and talk directly to them.

Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools

Shivkumar — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:05:53 GMT

Ted Buis,

Actually i am looking out for HP OpenView solution. If i come to know the name of the tool in this product suite then i can recommend.

Thanks,
Shiv

Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools

Ted Buis — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:33:49 GMT

http://managementsoftware.hp.com/products/ovis/index.html

Best I could find.

Re: Web Server performance measurement software tools

Arunvijai_4 — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:34:53 GMT

Hi Shiv, you can find the Openview products list here http://managementsoftware.hp.com/products/a-z.html

-Arun