Hi Frederic, Things like "refresh rate" will effectively tell you zero about user experience. It's actually very hard to come up with a good single metric for that.
I don't know about existing monitoring tools, but since you mention there are some proprietary solutions out there, how about taking inspiration from them? What kind of metrics do they capture? Some metrics of interest here would certainly be monitoring the bandwidth usage of the RDP session. That's one we often get asked for that could be done. The vast majority of bandwidth usage goes in graphics, and for deployments people need to plan for the bandwidth needs. Best regards, - Marc-Andre On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Frédéric Beuserie < frederic.beuse...@nsi-sa.be> wrote: > > Hi, > > i'm currently looking for tools that can help us monitor the end user > experience of one RDS solution. > > Besides a few proprietary solution, I'm studying the possibility to extend > freerdp to make it scriptable. > > what we need is: > - gather some timing during the session into a separate file descriptor > during the client run > ex: > - tcp connection openned: x ms > - session negociation: x ms > - login accepted: x ms > - desktop fully displayed: x ms > - logoff done: x ms > > and also possibly simulate mouse click to, ex, open word, type some > sentence and then save the file. mesuring delay between display refresh rate > > I know there is multiple issue here. > - remote desktop refresh rate is not necessarily the same as "how well the > user experience is", but it should be a good indicator. > - since this is one graphical env. i don't know if it's even possible to > mesure something between one "request" in the gui (eg: click somewhere) and > the "response" (eg: one windows > open) > - and probably a toon of other issues i don't think of because i don't > know well the internal of RDP. > > but, what do you think ? is that theoriticaly possible ? how much effort > should be put on this ? or better is there previous attempt at doing this ? > > i'm remembering the good old x3270 package wich provides one scriptable > version (s3270) of the terminal that allowed to do wonderfull thinks in the > past. but that was in the > text-era ... > > Thanks > > -- > Frédéric Beuserie > BU Infra / Technical Manager > NSI IT Software & Services > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freerdp-devel mailing list > Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
