Setting Up Your Test. Avid Technology SR2400, Unity MediaNetwork PortServer, Unity MediaNetwork Portserver Pro

Appendix A Avid Performance Meter

Setting Up Your Test

The Settings area of the Avid Performance Meter window displays the currently specified test parameters. Before running the test, you must mount at least one MediaNetwork workspace or local drive.

Setting Up a Standard Test

To change the default test settings:

1. Click the Setup button. The Avid Performance Meter Settings dialog box opens.

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2. Adjust the test parameters, as required:

Test Name

Path to Test

Select which one of the four standard, predefined tests you want to run: t

DV 25 Reads t DV 25 Writes t DV 50 Reads t

DV 50 Writes

These selections perform either read or write testing at a bandwidth similar to that required for DV 25 or DV 50 operation.

Select the path to the workspace you want to test, or type it in the text box.

This is a UNC path (for example, \\myMachine\ myShareFolder\subfolder ).

Duration

Loop

Setting Up Your Test

Select the test duration (in minutes), or type it in the text box. The minimum test duration is 1 minute.

Select the Loop option to repeat the test indefinitely. When you select this option, the test runs until you click the Stop button in the main utility window.

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The Loop option causes true loop behavior — at the end of the specified duration, the test stops, removes intermediate test files that were created, and then restarts the test using new intermediate test files.

3. If necessary, specify paths and file names for optional test and error log files as follows: a.

Click the Optional Log Files button. The Optional Log Files dialog box opens.

b.

If you want to log information about the test and its results, type a path name and a file name in the Log File text box, or click the

Browse button to search for a path name and file name.

c.

If you want to log error information, type a path name and a file name in the Error File text box, or click the Browse button to search for a path name and file name.

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If you do not want a log file, leave the Log File, Error File, or both text boxes blank.

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