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Preface
SAFplus Performance and Test Guide guide provides information about how the SAFplus system performs under load and how we test the product.
Audience
This guide is designed for system integrators, designers, and system architects. To use the product, you must be aware of the fundamentals of design, development, operation, management and configuration of telecommunication and networking systems. You must also be familiar with C programming, UML notations, and have the basic knowledge of Linux.
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Related Documents
For additional information about OpenClovis products, refer to the following guides:
- SAFplus Platform Release Notes provides information about the software and the hardware required to install OpenClovis Application Service Platform (SAFplus Platform) and Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It summarizes the additional features and enhancements of the product since the previous release. It also summarizes the issues and limitations of the product and provides workarounds wherever applicable.
- SAFplus Platform SA-Forum Compliance describes the level of compliance of OpenClovis SAFplus Platform and its Application Programming Interface (API) with the relevant Service Availability Forum Specifications.
- SAFplus Platform Installation Guide provides the system requirements, installation procedure for OpenClovis SAFplus Platform, IDE, and the Evaluation System.
- SAFplus Platform Sample Application Tutorial explains the steps to create and build a sample model using OpenClovis IDE and OpenClovis SAFplus Platform. It also provides troubleshooting information for this process. This provides the logical first step in understanding the SAFplus Platform offering.
- SAFplus Platform Evaluation System User Guide provides all the required information to configure and run the sample models packaged within the Evaluation System. This document also provides good understanding of OpenClovis SAFplus Platform's functionality. This is the natural follow on to the OpenClovis Sample Application Tutorial as it builds on the example created in that document.
- SAFplus Platform SDK User Guide provides information about SAFplus Availability/Scalability Platform architecture, various SAFplus Platform components, and their interactions. This guide helps you to configure the OpenClovis SAFplus Platform components, compile, and execute the SAFplus Platform code to build your custom application.
- SAFplus Platform IDE User Guide describes the usage of Integrated Development Environment (IDE), a graphical development environment that complements the SAFplus Platform. This guide helps you to understand how to use the various features of the IDE to build the application.
- SAFplus Platform Log Tool User Guide provides information about the usage of OpenClovis Log Tool. OpenClovis Log Tool is an interactive utility that allows you to view binary log files in a readable format and hence monitor system errors, warnings, and other log information. Log Tool allows you to format the
.logfiles and filter them to view the required entries. - SAFplus Platform API Reference Guide [1] is provided for each component. It describes the Application Programming Interface (API), Service Model, and Management Information Model of the various OpenClovis Application Service Platform (SAFplus Platform) services. It helps the developer to understand the capabilities of the SAFplus Platform services and the APIs provided by these services.
- SAFplus Platform Console Reference Guide provides details about managing applications built on SAFplus Platform using the SAFplus Platform runtime debug console commands. SAFplus Platform Console commands can be used to manage, monitor, and test your application.
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Performance
Test
StressTest
[describe what the test tests]
Required Cluster Configuration
[what cluster configuration is required. If there are multiple possible configurations, please describe the minimum configuration and the complete configuration. Describe what additional tests you get by running the complete vs the minimum.]
Running
[how can the test be run by hand? what configuration tweaks are there? What SGs need to be unlocked, etc? Am I expected to do some kills, pull links or stop nodes for HA]
What to Observe
[ How to prove that the test is testing? Post interesting logs generated, if "top", "tipc-config xxx", etc are informative then talk about them]
Test Document Template
[describe what this test tests]
Required Cluster Configuration
[what cluster configuration is required. If there are multiple possible configurations, please describe the minimum configuration and the complete configuration. Describe what additional tests you get by running the complete vs the minimum.]
Running
[how can the test be run by hand? what configuration tweaks are there? What SGs need to be unlocked, etc? Am I expected to do some kills, pull links or stop nodes for HA]
What to Observe
[ How to prove that the test is testing? Post interesting logs generated, if "top", "tipc-config xxx", etc are informative then talk about them]