For information, see the topic "Setting up clients and servers for Server.Load" earlier in this chapter.

3. In the Test Type field, choose Built-In, and then choose R5 Shared Database test from the list.

4. 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.

5. Click the Script Variables tab, and enter these values:

Variable	Action
MailServer	Enter the canonical name of the mail server -- for example, CN=MailServer1/O=Acme
DiscussionDB	Enter the name of the test discussion database
DiscTemplate	Enter the name of the template used for the discussion database
NBTestReset	Enter one to control how to handle existing documents at the start of the test: 1 -- To delete existing documents 0 -- To ignore existing documents Note The number of documents deleted is dependent on the value set for the variable MaxDocToDelete.
MaxDocToDelete	Enter the number of documents to delete when the test starts. After deleting documents, the initial document count is reset.
NumMailNotesPerUser	Enter the number of documents to create for each user to populate the database initially.
DiscDbAddDocRate	Enter the number of documents to add for each user.

6. (Optional) Click the Stop Conditions tab to set a stop condition.

For more information, see the topic "Setting a Server.Load stop condition" earlier in this chapter.

8. (Optional) Select metrics to monitor.

For more information, see the topic "Monitoring Server.Load metrics" earlier in this chapter.

10. Click Start Test.

See Also

R5 Shared Database test