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Question by Rick B. · May 31, 2014 at 07:14 AM ·

Test Name with SilkPerformer Plugin

Hi,

When we activate the SilkPerformer Diagnostics Plugin, it seems we only pass the Timer Name by default.  Is there a way that the scripts/tests have to be set up to get the test name into the tag also?  This would be great for using the Test Automation dashlet with load tests.

Thanks,

Rick B

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Answer by Andreas G. · Jun 19, 2014 at 11:31 PM

Hi Rick

The PM of Silk told me that there are more options available - probably in a newer version of Silk as the one you are using. Here is the list of options with some sample values next to it:

    WebSetHttpTag("x-dynaTrace",

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_RequestId |         // ID=1

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_UserId |            // VU=1

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_PageContext |       // PC=.1

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_Timer |             // NA=Demo+Borland+Com

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_Agent |             // AN=localhost

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_ProjectName |       // PN=DynaTraceTags

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_UserGroup |         // UG=WebUser

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_Profile |           // PF=Profile1

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_Workload |          // WL=Workload1

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_Transaction |       // TN=TWeb

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_BrowserSession |    // SI=1

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_WorkloadType |      // WT=3

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_LineNumber |        // LN=49

    WEB_TAG_FLAG_Time );             // TI=1403008918

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avatar image Rick B. · Jun 19, 2014 at 11:39 PM 0
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That's awesome!  I will inform the customer.  It would be great if one of the following options was available for Test Name:

  • Allow for modification of the flag (to use TE instead of PN for ProjectName is my immediate use case)
  • Include a separate flag TestName or ProjectNameTE which does the same
  • Allow dynaTrace to recognize ProjectName

I can submit an RFE for the third one, but wondering what you/<Silk-PM> might think is most feasible.

Thanks

Rick

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Answer by Andreas G. · Jun 17, 2014 at 04:45 AM

FYI - I just heard back from the SilkPerformer Product Manager. He is forwarding this to his engineering lead so that this gets addressed in future Silk versions

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Great!  Thanks a lot Andi, please feel free to share my info if they need user feedback.

Rick

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Answer by Andreas G. · Jun 14, 2014 at 05:36 AM

Unfortunately there has not been a whole lot of improvements in that integration as the official partnership between Compuware and MicroFocus ended a while back. Thats why recent extensions to the TAG are not available in SilkPerformer. I will reach out to my former colleagues over there and see if they can still make it happen

On your side - maybe you can talk with the customers so that they also reach out to MicroFocus asking them about ongoing investments in the integration

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Great idea.  dalden@fdic.gov, what do you think of this?

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Answer by Rick B. · Jun 14, 2014 at 02:13 AM

Thanks Andi,

It does not seem this is exposed/configurable in Silk or at the OS level but I was able to take your recommendation and pair all the available tags SilkPerformer provides with the ones that dynaTrace accepts and we put this in the tinit for the scripts:

dcltrans

transaction TInit

begin

  WebSetHttpTag("x-dynaTrace",

  WEB_TAG_FLAG_RequestId |

  WEB_TAG_FLAG_UserId |

  WEB_TAG_FLAG_PageContext |

  WEB_TAG_FLAG_Timer |

  WEB_TAG_FLAG_Agent);

end TInit;

If it turns out this is not configurable as it seems, can we compile it with the new header values and send a new version over to MF for future releases?

P.S. we still are missing test name here (would be "Project Name" which uses PN instead of TE), I would add the request that if the plugin were to be re-distributed we'd find some way to take this variable and re-assign it to TE, or else allow dynaTrace to see PN.

Thanks,

Rick B

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Answer by Andreas G. · Jun 01, 2014 at 04:29 PM

Hi Rick

The SilkPerformer integration was built before dynaTrace offered the additional tags Script Name, Geo Location, ... (that all came around the time when we tightened our integration with Gomez).

I dont have SP installed on my machine but I think I remember that the X-dynatrace HTTP Header is set through a BDL script that comes with the plugin. You could try to modfiy this BDL script that creates that header and add the additoinal information you need.

If I am wrong with that BDL script you could just write your own little helper method that generates the X-dynaTrace HTTP Header including all the information you need. SilkPerformer offers a method called WebSetHttpTag where you can set your custom tag

Hope this helps

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