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Revision: 534
Author:   

Date:     Thu Aug 25 07:35:14 2011
Log:      Added description of the meta data file.
http://code.google.com/p/ndt/source/detail?r=534

Modified:
 /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki

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--- /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki    Thu Aug 25 02:12:00 2011
+++ /wiki/NDTDataFormat.wiki    Thu Aug 25 07:35:14 2011
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@

 ===web100srv.log file===

-The NDT always writes a one-line summary of the test to the web100srv.log  
file. This one-line summary contains the final values of some of the web100  
variables with an additional analysis details.
-
-The particular values are separated with commas without any spaces. The  
results are stored with the following order:
+The NDT always writes a one-line summary of the test to the web100srv.log  
file.
+
+This one-line summary contains the final values of some of the web100  
variables with an additional analysis details. The particular values are  
separated with commas without any spaces. The results are stored with the  
following order:

 || *#* || *Name* || *Description/Comment* ||
 || 1. || date || start time of the test session (in the form "Wed Jun 30  
21:49:08 1993\n") ||
@@ -117,12 +117,30 @@

 ===meta data file===

-This meta data file contains the names of the other files, the clients &  
servers IP addr and FQDN, and the encoded line of the web100/analysis data.  
A sample of that data is
+The meta data file is always created for every test session.
+
+This file contains the names of the other files, the clients & servers IP  
addr and FQDN, and the encoded line of the web100/analysis data. The meta  
data contains lines in the following order:
+
+|| *#* || *Name* || *Description/Comment* ||
+|| 1. || Date/Time || Timestamp of the beginning of the test session ||
+|| 2. || C2S snaplog file || Filename of the snaplog taken during C2S  
Throughput test ||
+|| 3. || C2S ndttrace file || Filename of the tcpdump trace taken during  
C2S Throughput test ||
+|| 4. || S2C snaplog file || Filename of the snaplog taken during S2C  
Throughput test ||
+|| 5. || S2C ndttrace file || Filename of the tcpdump trace taken during  
S2C Throughput test ||
+|| 6. || cputime file || Filename of the cputime trace taken during the  
whole test session ||
+|| 7. || server IP address || IP address of the NDT server ||
+|| 8. || server hostname || Fully qualified hostname of the NDT server ||
+|| 9. || server kernel version || Kernel version of the NDT server's OS ||
+|| 10. || client IP address || IP address of the NDT client ||
+|| 11. || client hostname || Fully qualified hostname of the NDT client ||
+|| 12. || client OS name || Name of the NDT client's OS ||
+|| 13. || client browser name || Name of the NDT client's web browser (if  
applicable) ||
+|| 14. || Summary data || A one-line summary of the test containing the  
final values of some of the web100 variables with an additional analysis  
details. The particular values are separated with commas without any  
spaces. The results are written with the same order and contain the same  
values as the one-line summary from the [NDTDataFormat#web100srv.log_file  
web100srv.log file] (except the date and client name) ||
+|| 15. || Additional data || (*optional*) A multi-line information  
containing additional data sent by the client using the META protocol.  
Currently defined key/value pairs can be found in the  
[NDTProtocol#META_test NDT Protocol document] ||
+
+Please look at the following sample meta data file:

 {{{
-[iupui_ndt@mlab1
 ~]$ cat /usr/local/ndt/serverdata/
-2009/10/09/20091009T20:46:28.
-141927000Z_149.20.53.166:63251.meta
 Date/Time: 20091009T20:46:28.141927000Z
 c2s_snaplog file:  
20091009T20:46:28.141927000Z_149.20.53.166:60102.c2s_snaplog.gz
 c2s_ndttrace file:  
20091009T20:46:28.141927000Z_149.20.53.166:60102.c2s_ndttrace.gz