Faban Documentation

Table of Contents

• Installation and Getting Started
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Faban API Reference (Javadocs)

Faban Harness Users Guide

1. Faban Harness Overview
2. Deploying Benchmarks
3. Scheduling Runs
4. Managing Runs
5. Run Results
6. Archive Results
7. Result Tagging
   
8. Manage Logging

Faban Harness Developers Guide

1. Faban Harness Development Overview
2. The Benchmark Class
3. The Services and Tools Class
4. The Configuration File
5. The Submission Form
6. Benchmark Deployment
7. Services/Tools Deployment

Faban Driver Framework Developers Guide

1. Introduction
2. Driver Framework Architecture
3. Elements of a driver
4. Implementing the Drivers
• The Driver Context
• Reading Configuration Information
  
• Communicating with the SUT
  
• Error Handling
• Logging
• Metrics, Data Collection, and Reporting
  
5. Recording Time
6. Making Benchmark Runs

1. Sample Benchmark Driver
2. Sample Configuration File
3. Sample Formatted Summary Report
4. Sample XML Summary Report
5. Sample Detail Report

Faban Harness Configuration Guide

1. Faban Harness Configuration Overview
2. Security
3. Result Repository
   
4. Submission Proxy
5. Tuning

Tutorials

• Quick Start Tutorial - how to install Faban and deploy a workload
• Creating your first workload
• Creating and running a HTTP workload using fhb and a workload configuration file
• How to add delays (cycle/think times) to your workload
• Setting up your Faban Development Environment using the NetBeans IDE

How-To and Guide to Faban Features

• Runtime Reporting
• Physical Clock Synchronization
• Setting Driver Process Environment
• Configuring Runs with Varying Loads

Manual Pages

• fhb
• fabancli