Create/Edit Service Test: NNTP Page

Use the Create/Edit Service Test: NNTP page to specify or change parameters for the NNTP for an NNTP service.

The Description of the test can be specified when the test is created and modified when the test is edited.

If the value for the Collection Frequency (minutes) parameter has not been modified, it is the default value assigned when the test was created. This value shows the time (in minutes) between runs of the service test.

Test Parameters

The following table describes the test parameters for the NNTP service test. These can all be modified on this page.

Test Parameter	Description
NNTP Service Address	The host name or the IP address of the Big-IP or the machine used for accessing the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) service.
NNTP News Group	The name of the news group to which a message is posted.
Total Number of Retries	If the test does not run successfully, this value is the number of times the test will try to run before giving up.
Retry Time Interval	If the test does not run successfully, this value indicates how many minutes the test will wait before trying to run again.

Collected Metrics

The following table describes the response metrics collected for the NNTP service test.

Metric	Description
Status	Shows the current status of the NNTP service, either Up, Down, Status Pending, or Agent Unreachable.
Total Time (ms)	This value is the total time it took (in milliseconds) to open an NNTP connection, log in, retrieve a message and post a message to the news group.
Connect Time (ms)	This value is the time it took (in milliseconds) to open an NNTP connection.
Login Time (ms)	This value is the time it took (in milliseconds) to log into the NNTP service.
Post Time (ms)	This value is the time it took (in milliseconds) to post a message to the news group through the NNTP service.
Article Time (ms)	This value is the time it took (in milliseconds) to retrieve a message from the NNTP service.

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