POLYGRAPH(7)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Polygraph — performance benchmark for web intermediaries. This is the POLYGRAPH(7) manual page from the User Commands section, and bestie, it’s literally the group-chat hub for Web Polygraph. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Web Polygraph is a performance testing tool for caching proxies, origin server accelerators, L4/7 switches, content filters, and other Web intermediaries. It’s giving benchmark royalty, and its features include:

  • high-performance HTTP clients and servers 🚀
  • realistic HTTP, FTP, and SSL traffic generation 🌐
  • HTTP Basic, NTLM, and Negotiate proxy authentication 🔐
  • LDAP-friendly generation of user credentials 🪪
  • flexible content simulation 🎨
  • ready-to-use standard workloads for benchmarking 📊
  • powerful domain-specific configuration language 🛠️
  • portable open-source implementation 🌱
  • friendly commercial support 🫶

Web Polygraph consists of many tools listed below. See individual man pages for more information. Detailed documentation is available at www.web-polygraph.org. 👑

  • polygraph-aka — IP aliases manipulation tool. Alias management, no cap. 🪞
  • polygraph-beepmon — forwards BEEP messages to an external program. BEEP relay bestie. 📡
  • polygraph-cdb — content database manipulation tool. Content DB vibes. 🗂️
  • polygraph-client — Web Polygraph client simulator. The client-side simulator, periodt. 💻
  • polygraph-cmp-lx — log comparison tool. Logs getting compared, slay. 📝
  • polygraph-distr-test — distribution test. A distribution test, literally. 📈
  • polygraph-dns-cfg — DNS server configuration tool. DNS config icon. 🌐
  • polygraph-lr — console log extractor. Pulling console logs out here. 🧲
  • polygraph-ltrace — trace extractor. Trace extraction main character. 🔍
  • polygraph-lx — stats extractor. Stats extraction server. 📊
  • polygraph-pgl2acl — translates PGL access rules into Squid Proxy ACLs. PGL ➡️ Squid ACLs. 🐙
  • polygraph-pgl2eng — PGL to English converter. PGL, but make it English. 🗣️
  • polygraph-pgl2ips — PGL IP addresses calculator. PGL IP math, fr fr. 🧮
  • polygraph-pgl2ldif — LDIF (and other text-based) configuration generator. LDIF and friends, generated. 📄
  • polygraph-pgl-test — PGL validator. PGL vibe check. ✅
  • polygraph-pmix2-ips — PolyMix-2 address calculator. PolyMix-2 IP math. 🧮
  • polygraph-pmix3-ips — PolyMix-3 address calculator. PolyMix-3 IP math. 🧮
  • polygraph-polymon — interactive test monitoring tool. Interactive monitoring, obsessed. 👀
  • polygraph-polyprobe — tests TCP throughput in a full client/server mesh. TCP throughput in a full client/server mesh. 🕸️
  • polygraph-polyrrd — supplies run-time Polygraph stats to RRDtool. Runtime stats ➡️ RRDtool. 📉
  • polygraph-pop-test — predicts cache hit ratios for a given workload. Cache hit ratio prediction. 🔮
  • polygraph-reporter — HTML report generator. HTML reports, iconic. 📰
  • polygraph-rng-test — random number generator test. RNG test, no cap. 🎲
  • polygraph-server — Web Polygraph server simulator. The server-side simulator. 🖥️
  • polygraph-udp2tcpd — converts UDP monitoring messages into a TCP stream read by polymon. UDP ➡️ TCP stream for polymon. 🔄
  • polygraph-webaxe4-ips — WebAxe-4 address calculator. WebAxe-4 IP math. 🧮

Copyright © 2003-2006 The Measurement Factory, Inc. — periodt, that’s the copyright line and we’re keeping it exactly. 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay bye bestie, mwah 💋 — this page is from Web Polygraph, February 2010, POLYGRAPH(7), and it’s sliving. 🫶

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