The System Administration for Performance Center course is designed to teach you how to use and maintain the Administrative site, set up users, and manage resources. Administrators will learn best practices that will enable them to use the tool more effectively to manage their Performance Center. This class is appropriate for both experienced and new product users and others responsible for or involved in managing or running performance tests with Performance Center.

• Experienced and new product users.
• Those responsible for or involved in performance testing projects.

• Experience with Microsoft Windows
• User experience with Web browsers
• Knowledge of performance testing is an advantage

This course teaches you to:

• Performance Center architecture
• Managing users accounts
• Managing user privileges
• Managing multiple projects
• Managing server resources
• Managing test executions
• Monitoring and Analysis of Errors

• Introduction
• Overview
• Creating and Managing Projects
• Privilege Levels and Users
• Managing Server Resources
• Timeslots and Test Runs
• Understanding Reports
• Troubleshooting
• General Settings

Introduction

• System requirements and footprints
• Overview of Performance Center
• How Performance Center works
• Identify the various Performance Center components

Overview

• Roles and Responsibilities for Admin site
• Responsibilities of a PC Admin
• Intro to Admin site
• Administrate processes available
• through the main interface

Creating and Managing Projects

• Manage multiple project profiles by controlling host allocation, allotting timeslots, supervise test runs, monitor errors and feedback

Privilege Levels and Users

• Identify privilege levels
• Create and configure user privileges
• View personal information
• Manage user information
• Edit privilege levels

Managing Server Resources

• Administer Server Reboot
• Install Patches
• Interpret Servers Info
• Maintain Server status

Timeslots and Test Runs

• Understand Timeslots
• Maintain Test Runs

Understanding Reports

• Viewing the Site Users Report
• Viewing the Resource Usage Report
• Viewing the Test Run Information Report
• Viewing Report Details
• Viewing the Autostart Viewer Report

Troubleshooting

• Establish Concurrency
• Manage License
• Control Performance Center server’s mapping

General Settings

• Test settings (settings load test details)
• Over the firewall agent