The task of performing a benchmark includes many steps, and is covered in Performing IBM WebSphere InterChange Server benchmarks. One of the major subtasks is configuring a definition for the benchmark you want to perform. This chapter details the tasks involved in preparing benchmark definitions, and describes the benchmark wizard that you use to work with them.
The benchmark wizard uses a series of screens to collect information about the components or interfaces that you want to benchmark. The screens are mostly the same for all six types of benchmarks and for all four main benchmark configuration actions: creating a new benchmark, editing an existing benchmark, loading a benchmark from a file, and generating workload to a file.
All of the individual wizard screens are described in detail in the section "Creating a new benchmark". For the other sections, such as editing or deleting benchmark definitions, where steps are identical to those for creating a new benchmark, you are directed to "Creating a new benchmark". Screens that are unique to the other tasks or are different for the other tasks, however, are described in the particular section for that task.
Topics included in this chapter include: