MONITORING


Running the SMTP and POP3 Workload test
1. Make sure that you already completed the procedure "Running the SMTP and POP3 Initialization Workload."

2. Run the "Create NotesBench Mail Person Documents" agent to create the desired number of Person documents in the Domino Directory.

3. On the Domino Administrator client, start Server.Load by running SLOAD.EXE from the Program directory.

4. In the Test Type field, choose Built-In, and then choose SMTP and POP3 Workload from the list.

5. Click the Test Parameters tab. If you are running the test on multiple clients, increment the value of the Starting Thread No. parameter when you run the test on each client.

6. Click the Script Variables tab, and enter these values:
VariableAction
NormalMessageSizeEnter the size of the body of the message. Recommended value is 10000.
MessageLineSizeEnter the number of characters per line. Recommended value is 80.
NumMessageRecipientsEnter the number of recipients for each message. Recommended value is 3.
SMTPHostEnter the fully qualified domain name of the Domino server that is running the SMTP Listener task -- for example, server1.acme.com
RecipientDomainEnter the name of the domain containing the intended recipients -- for example, acme.com.
ClientHostEnter the fully qualified domain name of the client -- for example, client1.acme.com
NthIterationEnter the frequency for how often a message is sent. Instead of the message being sent on every script iteration, the message is sent once per n iterations of the script. Recommended value is 6.
POP3HostEnter the fully qualified domain name of the Domino server running the POP3 task, in the format system.domainname -- for example, Server2.acme.com.
7. (Optional) Click the Stop Conditions tab to set a stop condition.


8. Click Execute.

9. (Optional) Select metrics to monitor.


10. (Optional) In the "Server to receive console commands" field, enter the name of the SUT.

11. Click Start Test.

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