Portal performance

[#1]

Hi folks,

i do have several customers that have performance problems with their enterprise portal.

But these problems don´t have to be "real" problems with the portal itself. It is also possible that they are based in connection to the backend system, they can be network problems, slow database(s), the j2ee engine etc...

Do you know a tool or a process that will enable people like me to find the real problem systematically? Do you have an idea what to test first, have a look at what kind of logs to get some information about the performace bottlenecks?

The best case would be a unified process that will check all possible bottlenecks systematically (does not have to be automated) and help the guy doing the measurement in finding the solution. Is there anybody who already has a solution for this problem?!

I hope you can help me

Kind regards

Michael

[Former Member]

Hi Michael,

first you can check some things in the monitoring service (reply times, memory usage and so on). If you want to make a loadtest I would suggest using a tool like Mercury Loadrunner. I think it would be the best if you prepare some test cases and then use such a tool to find out where the bottlenecks are. Mercury should have adapters to get performance data from the OS, the portal and the backends.

Best regards,

Jens

[Former Member]

Hi Jens.

which monitoring service you mentioned ?

Is it a tool inside Portal ?