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The View
Results dialog box
Screenshot: View
Results dialog box.
The View Results
dialog box lets you tailor your results workbooks. You
can specify which tables you want to view and where you
want WebBench to look for the information it uses to
create the server disclosure and client disclosure tables
in the results workbooks.
This is also the
dialog box you must be at if you want to edit the
Captured disclosure (i.e., the .DLG
files), create or edit configuration
setups
for the server and/or the clients, and create
or edit configuration database files.
You can also
easily tell which test suite you ran for which set of
results. Just highlight the name of the results file in
the Results Name list. WebBench displays the name of the
test suite associated with that results file and any
comments you entered when you ran that test suite in the
Test Suite box and the Comments box,
Each option you
select in this dialog box applies to all the results
files listed under Results Name.
Heres an
explanation of what you can do at this dialog box:
- Add
more results files to your current list of files.
When you choose the Add button, WebBench displays
the Select Results dialog box.
- Remove one
of the currently selected results files. If you
decide you dont want to view all the
results files youve chosen, you can use the
Remove button to take the files you dont
want out of the list.
- Server
Configuration specifies the configuration
setup you want WebBench to use as the basis for
the Server Disclosure table in the WebBench
results workbook. This is a drop-down list of all
the server configurations available. If you
choose the Edit button, WebBench
displays the Server Disclosure
Form. You can then edit the
current configuration information.
- Client
Configuration specifies the configuration
setup you want WebBench to use as the basis for
the Client Disclosure table in the WebBench
results workbook. This is a drop-down list of all
the server configurations available. If you
choose the Edit button, WebBench
displays the Client Disclosure
Form. You can then edit the
current configuration information.
- Database
displays the currently selected configuration
database file. You can use the Browse button to
choose a different database file or create a new database file.
You can also tell WebBench how to set up
your results workbooks. You can choose:
- Which
workbook options you want. Under Workbook
Options, WebBench lets you specify:
- Save
Workbook with results name. When checked,
this option tells WebBench to automatically
save each set of results to an Excel workbook
that has the same name as the results file.
For example, if your results are called STATIC_11.TLG,
Excel would save them to a workbook called STATIC_11.XLS.
- Delete
Log files. When you check this option,
then, once WebBench has generated the results
spreadsheets you selected, it will delete the
log files that contained the results
information. So, if you dont save the
spreadsheet using Excel (or didnt tell
WebBench to automatically save the
spreadsheet), you wont be able to view
those results again. In addition, if you
didnt tell WebBench to create all the
results tables for that set of results, you
wont be able to generate them later.
- Load
webbench.xla Add-in. When you check this
option, WebBench automatically loads its WEBBENCH.XLA
Add-In module for Excel and adds a WebBench
menu item to the Excel menu bar. This module
lets you create requests per second and
throughput summary graphs. It also enables
you to easily print the graphs or tables from
within the WebBench workbooks without
printing other forms of data.

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Tip:
While
you can permanently install the WEBBENCH.XLA
module through Excel itself, we recommend that
you install this module from the View Results
window. This way, it wont affect your daily
Excel work. If you install the module permanently
in Excel, youll notice that your Excel
start-up time is slower even when youre not
generating WebBench results. |
- Which
results tables you want to view. When you check
the category, WebBench displays those tables when
it creates the results workbooks. Your options
here are:
Overall
Results
Table 1: WebBench
Summary
Table 2: Overall Data
Table 3: Overall Class
Statistics
(With Table 1, WebBench also displays the Test
information box and the requests per second and
throughput graphs of your servers results.)
Client
Results
Table 4: Client Data
Disclosure
Table 5: Server
Disclosure
Table 6: Client
Disclosure
Test
Suite Description
Table 7: Test Suite
Information
Table 8: Client
Workload File Descriptions
If an error
occurred during the test suite, WebBench will also
display Table 9: Error
Information in the results workbook.
Once you have
all the results files you want to view and have set the
database and workbook options, click on View and WebBench
will display your results.
NOTE:
If you have a Excel session currently running,
WebBench will use that session of Excel to display
the results workbooks. Otherwise, it will start a
session of Excel.
Getting to this dialog
box
To get to this
dialog box, choose View Results in the main
WebBench window. Next, choose the results files
you want to view from the Select Results dialog box and click on Open.
WebBench now displays this dialog box.
To get to this dialog box,
choose View Results in the main WebBench window. Next, choose
the results files you results files you results a
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