DESCRIPTION
Web Polygraph is a performance testing tool for caching proxies, origin server accelerators, L4/7 switches, content filters, and other Web intermediaries. Polygraph's features include:
* high-performance HTTP clients and servers
* realistic HTTP, FTP, and SSL traffic generation
* HTTP Basic, NTLM, and Negotiate proxy authentication
* LDAP-friendly generation of user credentials
* flexible content simulation
* ready-to-use standard workloads for benchmarking
* powerful domain-specific configuration language
* portable open-source implementation
* friendly commercial support
Web Polygraph consists of many tools listed below. See individual man pages for more information. Detailed documentation is available at www.web-polygraph.org.
polygraph-aka - IP aliases manipulation tool
polygraph-beepmon - forwards BEEP messages to an external program
polygraph-cdb - content database manipulation tool
polygraph-client - Web Polygraph client simulator
polygraph-cmp-lx - log comparison tool
polygraph-distr-test - distribution test
polygraph-dns-cfg - DNS server configuration tool
polygraph-lr - console log extractor
polygraph-ltrace - trace extractor
polygraph-lx - stats extractor
polygraph-pgl2acl - translates PGL access rules into Squid Proxy ACLs
polygraph-pgl2eng - PGL to English converter
polygraph-pgl2ips - PGL IP addresses calculator
polygraph-pgl2ldif - LDIF (and other text-based) configuration generator
polygraph-pgl-test - PGL validator
polygraph-pmix2-ips - PolyMix-2 address calculator
polygraph-pmix3-ips - PolyMix-3 address calculator
polygraph-polymon - interactive test monitoring tool
polygraph-polyprobe - tests TCP throughput in a full client/server mesh
polygraph-polyrrd - supplies run-time Polygraph stats to RRDtool
polygraph-pop-test - predicts cache hit ratios for a given workload
polygraph-reporter - HTML report generator
polygraph-rng-test - random number generator test
polygraph-server - Web Polygraph server simulator
polygraph-udp2tcpd - converts UDP monitoring messages into a TCP stream read by polymon
polygraph-webaxe4-ips - WebAxe-4 address calculator