Enable Worst Client and Server Analysis

Note: This feature is not available on the PacketShaper ISP or PacketShaper 1200 models.

For traffic classes with total delay thresholds, PacketWise maintains lists of the "Worst Clients" and "Worst Servers." Each list displays up to 20 clients or servers that have the highest percentage of transactions exceeding the total delay threshold. These lists are useful for determining the scope of a problem and for focusing a diagnostic search. If you want PacketWise to track the worst performers in a class, you must first enable worst client and server analysis.

Note: You cannot enable worst client and server analysis without having a total delay threshold. You can either set the threshold first and then enable worst analysis or set the threshold at the same time as you enable worst analysis.

Caution: If you set a network or server delay threshold via the command-line interface, you should not enable worst client and server analysis. Doing so will clear the threshold setting. (Worst client and server analysis is for total delay threshold only.)

To enable worst client and server analysis:

1. Click the manage tab on the navigation bar. The Traffic Class window appears.

2. Select the traffic class. The Traffic Class window displays the definition for the selected class.

3. Click statistics and select response time. The Statistics: Response Time screen appears.  show screen

4. Select the Worst Clients & Servers Analysis checkbox.

5. Click apply changes.

Links to Worst Client and Worst Server appear near the top of the window.  show screen  You can click these links to display the associated lists.

See also:

List the Worst Clients and Servers