WebStone User Manual
Last modified: 98/05/14

webstonegui

NAME

WebStone GUI - run the WebStone benchmark from a Web browser SYNOPSIS

webstone -gui

DESCRIPTION

The webstone distribution includes a collection of Perl scripts to provide a graphical user interface for managing and running the WebStone benchmark.

Before trying to invoke the graphical user interface, unpack the WebStone distribution and run webstone -setup from the command line.

OPTIONS

None. The WebStone GUI is completely interactive.

DETAILS

Here are the screens presented by the GUI. Clicking on the WebStone logo in any of the screens returns you to the top level.

WebStone: This is the main screen, a list of links to the other screens.
Configure WebStone: Presents a form to let the user modify the run parameters. The form is read from the conf/testbed file and writes the user's choices back to that file.
Choose a URL List: Displays the comment line from the file conf/filelist and a list of file names and comment lines from which to choose. Click the radio button to select, click on the comment to see what's in the file.
Run WebStone: Presents a summary of the current test configuration and a big button to kick off a run. The run output is displayed in the browser window.
View WebStone Results: Scans the bin/runs directory for run results and presents a tabular summary.
Administer WebStone: Lets the user rename the output directory or terminate a run.

FILES

bin/*.wpl: The Perl scripts that make up the WebStone GUI. The special suffix ("WebStone Perl") is to make sure the script is run by the GUI's own micro-server rather than by the browser.

ENVIRONMENT

AUTHOR

WebStone was created by Silicon Graphics, Inc. Version 2.5 and later were developed by Mindcraft, Inc.

LIMITATIONS

The GUI doesn't work on NT.
The user has to know when to refresh/reload a screen.
Choose a URL List: The programmer has to keep the comments up to date if a configuration file is modified.
View WebStone Results: Names of subdirectories should be given in the table, so the user can identify sets of runs.
Administer WebStone: The "Clean up stray WebStone processes" option only works on UNIX systems. The "Move Results Directory" should allow the user to choose a particular list of run directories and move them to a subdirectory of "bin/runs".

SEE ALSO