MONITORING

Running the Web Mail Initialization Workload
1. Make sure that you already set up clients and servers for Server.Load.
2. Run the Create NotesBench Mail Person Documents agent to create the desired number of Person documents in the Domino Directory. When prompted, set these variables:
VariableSetting
Message storage format2 (MIME)
Mail system0 (SMTP/POP3)
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 Web Mail Initialization Workload from the list.

5. Click the Script Variables tab, and enter these values:
VariableAction
NBTestResetEnter 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.
MailServerEnter the canonical name of the mail server -- for example, CN=MailServer1/O=Acme.
HTTPHostEnter the TCP/IP address or host name of the Domino Web server
nb_dbdirEnter a database directory relative to the Notes data directory. Recommended value is mail\.
MailTemplateEnter the name of the mail file template.
NormalMessageSizeEnter the size of the body of the message. Recommended value is 10000.
NumMailNotesPerUserEnter the number of documents to populate the mail file when it is created. Recommended value is 100.
DomainEnter the name of the Notes mail domain.
6. Verify that the client and server experience no errors while creating mail files. If a mail file has not been created, the test script creates the mail file during the first test iteration, but this adds overhead on the server back end. As a rule, CPU on the client and SUT should not exceed 75%, and the percentage of Disk Time on the Domino Server Data directory should not be a factor.

7. 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.

8. Setting a Server.Load stop condition


9. Click Execute.

10. (Optional) Select metrics to monitor.


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

12. Click Start Test.

13. Verify that the correct number of test mail files were created in the data directory. Each mail file is named MAILn.NSF, where n is a number.

14. Complete the procedure "Running the Web Mail test."

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