Watching a virtual user during a schedule run
During a schedule run, you can select any virtual user
and watch that user's real-time browser. Watching the real-time browser
lets you investigate the status of individual virtual users while
they are running. You can determine whether a run is valid despite
the occurrence of individual virtual user failures.
About this task
- It enables you to quickly verify that virtual users are receiving the data that you expect. Assume that you want to verify that virtual users use different datapool data during a schedule run. You can select a virtual user during the run and see the real-time data for that user. You can then select another virtual user and see that user's data.
- It confirms whether a schedule run is valid despite the occurrence of failures. Assume that you are running a schedule that takes several hours to complete. Intermittent failures occur during the run. To find out whether these failures are significant enough to interrupt the run, you can investigate the activities of virtual users that are running at each location (agent computer). You can decide whether to allow the schedule to run to completion.
- It enables you to investigate errors during a run. Assume that you have confirmed that a schedule is running successfully, despite the errors of a few virtual users. However, you want to find the specific virtual users with verification point failures and see what each virtual user is doing when the failure occurs. To do so, start monitoring different virtual users until you find one who is experiencing failures. The Verification Point report is helpful for narrowing down which user groups are experiencing failures. When the virtual user has been identified and monitoring has started, use the Event Log page to see the error details for this user.
Procedure
To watch a virtual user during a schedule run: