Default Parameters for AzureWebAcsTest

The details of the AzureWebAcsTest test that emulates a user accessing the Microsoft Azure cloud are provided below. Since this test can be executed from a location external to the Microsoft Azure, this test presents an unbiased external perspective of the state of the Microsoft Azure cloud.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the AzureWebAcsTest.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

• This test emulates a user accessing a specific web site(s) on the target Azure cloud to determine the availability and responsiveness of the cloud. To enable this emulation, you need to configure the test with the URL of the web site that it should access. Specify this URL against the URL parameter. If required, you can even configure multiple URLs - one each for every web site that the test should attempt to access. If each URL configured requires special permissions for logging in, then, you need to configure the test with separate credentials for logging into every URL. Likewise, you need to provide instructions to the test on how to validate the content returned by every URL, and also set an encoding format for each URL. To enable administrators to easily configure the above per URL, eG Enterprise provides a special interface. To access this interface, click on the encircled ‘+’ button alongside the URL text box in the test configuration page. Alternatively, you can even click on the encircled ‘+’ button adjacent to the URL parameter in the test configuration page. To know how to use this special interface, Click here.

• Confirm whether any cookies being returned by the web server need to be saved locally and returned with subsequent requests using the COOKIEFILE flag.

• IN the PROXYHOST text box, specify the host on which a web proxy server is running (in case a proxy server is to be used)

• Specify the port number on which the web proxy server is listening, in the PROXYPORT text box.

• Enter the user name of the proxy server in the PROXYUSERNAME text box.

• Specify the password of the proxy server in the PROXYPASSWORD text box.

• Confirm the PASSWORD by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD text box.

• In the TIMEOUT text box, specify the maximum duration (in seconds) for which the test will wait for a response from the server. The default TIMEOUT period is 30 seconds.

• Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the UPDATE button will register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with “$” indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to “xyz” and $port will be changed to “80” when configuring a test.