The environment for the Clear Choice Test of Longitude consisted of six routed Fast Ethernet subnet domains and a T-1 Internet connection.
Our test environment consisted of six routed Fast Ethernet subnet domains and a T-1 Internet connection. Each subnet’s 25 client computers was a mix of Windows 2000 Professional, NT Workstation 4.0, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Red Hat Linux, AIX and Macintosh platforms.
The relational databases on the network were Oracle 8i, Sybase Adaptive Server 11.5 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Windows 2000 and NetWare 5.1 shared files, while Internet Information Server, Netscape and Apache software served up Web pages. An Agilent Advisor protocol analyzer decoded and displayed network traffic.
We ran Longitude on a four-way Compaq ProLiant ML570 900 MHz computer with Pentium III CPUs, 2GB of RAM and six 18GB SCSI RAID drives. The operating system was Windows 2003 Advanced Server.
We tested the product’s ability to monitor for service-level agreement compliance, outages and slowdowns, send e-mail alerts or page us when problems occurred, and give us reports we could use to track problems and spot trends.
