Blog Post: Efficient website performance: the route to success
Website content, marketing automation tools, Social Media marketing, blogs and community sites are now at the forefront of successful marketing – and a lapse in performance in any of the systems can...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to convert any date to millisecond
It cannot be done since Silk Performer does not support an integer larger than 2147483647. Using floating point numbers is possible but you will lose the accuracy.
View ArticleWiki Page: Silk Performer 15.0 Gui-Level Testing with Silk4J and Silk4NET
Silk Performer 15.0 now allows you to perform GUI-level tests with Silk4J and Silk4NET test scripts. With this new feature it is now possible to use the following Silk Test clients for GUI-level...
View ArticleWiki Page: Silk Performer does not record Rumba AS400 sessions.
When trying to record Rumba with Silk Performer, no functions are recorded and the AS400 session does not connect to the Mainframe server. The Silk Performer recorder log also shows entries such as:...
View ArticleWiki Page: What is the 0xB7 character that appears in my log files?
The middle dot character is used to represent a blank space that is sent as part of the actual traffic, as opposed to a blank space that is used for formatting purposes only. Example from a Silk...
View ArticleWiki Page: How can I ensure VUsers running on Agent machines can write to a...
With the use of the EnableUNCAccess function (called in the scripts initial transaction), VUsers running on agent systems will be able to access a network-shared folder for writing purposes. This...
View ArticleWiki Page: How do I change the severity of an error in Silk Performer ?
It is possible to change the severity of an error either through the GUI or programmatically. GUI Approach: Go to SETTINGS | ACTIVE PROFILE | SIMULATION | ERRORS Tab Click Add Choose the Module that...
View ArticleWiki Page: What is the difference between the "Connect" and "Run" options in...
The "Connect" button initializes the connection with all agent machines in order to ensure the agents can be accessed. All VUsers will then change to a "ready to start" status and you then start the...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why do I see "Winsock 21 Connection Timed Out" errors during my...
The "Connection timed out" error is normally associated with the Winsock error code 10060, and is caused when the system under test does not respond to the clients request within a specified time,...
View ArticleWiki Page: How can I ensure that Internet Explorer is started in "Maximized"...
Starting Internet Explorer in its Maximized mode will help create more consistent Citrix scripts since the Citrix replay engine relies on screen co-ordinates. Windows applications, including Internet...
View ArticleWiki Page: How can I set "Content Encoding" (aka HTTP compression) in a BDL...
This can be achieved either via the Active Profile settings, or by using the WebSetOption function in the script. Using the WebSetOption function : WebSetOption(WEB_OPT_ENABLE_CONTENT_ENCODING, 1);...
View ArticleWiki Page: Can Silk Performer monitor network devices such as switches and...
Yes, network devices usually have a Management Information Base (MIB) files which provide objects that can be monitored by a network management system. Both SNMP and RMON use standardized MIB formats...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why do I receive an error "BDL Machine: 13 - RUN actual length of...
NOTE: This is only relevant to Silk Performer versions before SilkPerformer 6.0 This is caused by a variable being assigned a value at runtime, usually the result of concatenation, making the new...
View ArticleWiki Page: Why do I see COM_NULL values in my script?
This article discusses COM functionality. COM Support was deprecated in Silk Performer 2011, so this information is only applicable up until Silk Performer version 2010 R2 . The special value...
View ArticleWiki Page: How can I customize data returned by the function...
To aid customisation of Siebel 7 web scripts, the possible values for rowids and other dynamic data are automatically parsed. The particular value returned to the server during recording is extracted...
View ArticleWiki Page: Can I monitor a Citrix Server using Performance Explorer?
Yes, if the Citrix server provides performance measures then you will be able capture these in Performance Explorer, for example a Citrix server installed on windows provides the measures noted below....
View ArticleWiki Page: Is there a way to add a graph to the Overview Report which shows...
To do this you need to remerge the Time Series data in Performance Explorer: Choose Wizard - Remerge Wizard to open the wizard If you have already loaded a tsd file then it will be shown by default in...
View ArticleWiki Page: When trying to view my PDF file on TrueLog Explorer why do I get a...
When trying to view my PDF file on TrueLog Explorer why do I get a file download box prompting me to open or save the file. As a result of this download box I can now not view the PDF file in the...
View ArticleWiki Page: When upgrading a machine to SilkPerformer 6.5 can I keep older...
You can install SilkPerformer 6.5 on a machine which already has SilkPerformer 5.x or 6.0.1 (controller and agent), leaving all versions operational. However version 6.5 cannot be installed on a...
View ArticleWiki Page: When monitoring a BEA- WebLogic Server why does the counter...
When monitoring a WebLogic Server for the counter "executeQueueRuntimePendingRequestOldestTime" you will often see values which appear to be very large for example: 807,932,873.80. The official BEA...
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