Resource Management

Internet Server Measurements

An Internet server complex often provides a range of services and uses applications such as firewalls, web servers, and content generation databases. Each of these applications supports a range of operations that you can log or monitor to discover the rate of use and the mixture of operations. In some cases, the time taken for each operation is also logged, so you can obtain a response time measurement.

One of the most common applications is the proxy web cache service. Because this application often acts as a funnel for all the web traffic going out of a corporate intranet to the Internet itself, a good measure of overall Internet response time can be obtained. An example scenario follows.

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