METHOD FOR MEASURING PERFORMANCE OF AN APPLIANCE

• US 20140081589A1
• Filed: 02/28/2013
• Published: 03/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lin, Ta-Wei, Liu, Jeffrey CH, Hsiao, Lin Chan, Liang, Shu-Hao, Su, Chih-Wen
• Granted Patent: US 9,811,080 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/109
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3466 Performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring

Abstract

A method that measures performance of an information appliance comprises a test module receiving, from a client, and recording a request for processing of a sample data by an information appliance. The test module sends the sample data received from the client to the information appliance for processing. If a request to a backend application is present, the test module also sends the request to the backend application for processing and receives and records a response from the backend application. The test module sends the response from the backend application to the information appliance for processing. A generated correlation ID is used to update a performance data table with start time and a stop time of a response for transaction sample data processed by the information appliance.

Claims

1. A method for measuring performance of an information appliance, the method comprising:

a test module receiving, from a client, and recording a request for processing of a sample data by the information appliance;

the test module sending the request for sample data to the information appliance for processing;

the test module determining whether a request to a backend application for processing is present;

in response to determining a request to the backend application is present, the test module;

sending the request to the backend application for processing;

receiving and recording a response from the backend application; and

sending the response from the backend application to the information appliance for processing.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the response of the backend application and the sample data are stored in a traffic data table (TDT) as a transaction sample data.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

the test module generating a correlation ID and updating a performance data table according to the correlation ID;

the test module retrieving the transaction sample data from the traffic data table (TDT) and sending the transaction sample data to the information appliance for processing;

the test module receiving a response to the transaction sample data from the information appliance;

in response to receiving the response to the transaction sample data from the information appliance, the test module updating the performance data table according to the correlation ID, wherein the updates to the performance data table include at least a start time of the transaction sample data and a stop time of response of the transaction sample data processed by the information appliance.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the performance data table comprises transaction sample data size.