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chris_connell_1
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Oct 05, 2009

Testing 50 servers

  Hi,     We have 50 servers to test and send traffic through, the probe which simulates a client generates a stream of traffic every half an hour.     The problem is that w...
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David_Larsen
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Oct 20, 2009
That was why i have it verify for the "server=" before doing the DNS lookup. That way if the string isn't present then the DNS hit isn't taken. I would only use this for monitoring application functionality on specific servers. But as you said I would watch it for a while to make sure you aren't impacting response times and i wouldn't rely on the response times with monitoring, only functionality.