HTTPS test case common options

Use this page as a generic for information that is common to all HTTPS case configurations. Anything specific to the case itself will be found within the case's page, i.e. HTTPS RPS test specifics will be found under the HTTPS RPS document page.

Settings	Guidelines
Basic Information
Name	Specify the case name, or just use the default. The name appears in the list of test cases.
Ping Server Timeout	If a FortiTester connects to a DUT via a switch, the switch might cause a ping timeout, resulting in the test case failing to run. If this occurs, increase the timeout. The default is 15 seconds. The valid range is 0 to 600. NOTE: You can disable this end-to-end connectivity test by entering a setting of 0. If the DUT is unable to return packets, it is recommended you do so.
Number of Samples	Select the number of samples. The default is 20, which means the web UI will show the last 20 sample data (about 20 seconds) in the test case running page. You can select 20, 60, or 120.
Script Config	Select the script that will run before/after the test. To create a script, see Using script object templates.
Steady Duration	Specify the test duration. The default is 10 minutes. The test stops automatically after the duration you specify.
Stopping Status in Second	The maximum time out in seconds allotted for FortiTester to close all TCP connections after the test finishes.
DNS Host Group	Select the DNS host group to look up the IP address of a domain name. To create a DNS host group, see Creating DNS host group.
DUT Monitor	Select to monitor a FortiGate device under test (DUT). If selected, you can monitor the DUT from the DUT Monitor tab on the management interface. To create a DUT monitoring, see Using DUT monitoring.
Network Settings If you have selected a network config template, the network settings automatically inherit the configurations in the template. See Using network configuration templates for the description of network settings.
Load
Simulated Users	Number of users to simulate.
Connections per Second	Rate of new connections per second. The value must be greater than 0. If the user wants FortiTester to create connections as fast as possible, the user should set the Mode to Simulated Users. Available only when Connections/second is selected for Mode.
Ramp Up Time	The duration in seconds for which new sessions can be opened, attempting to reach the desired Connections per Second configured. (Range: 0 - 300). NOTE: If FortiTester cannot reach the Connections per Second configured during the specified Ramp Up Time, it will keep the highest CPS it reached during the Ramp Up Time.
Ramp Down Time	The duration in second during which the device ramps down the number of connections it is making. 0 will cause the FortiTester to cease generating sessions. (Range: 0 - 300).
HTTP Request Time Out	An HTTP request timeout occurs when an HTTP request is issued, but no data is responded back from the server within a certain time (in seconds). The timeout usually indicates an overwhelmed server or reverse proxy, or an outage of the back-end transactions processing servers. FortiTester will reset the connection upon timeout.
Bidirectional Traffic Flow	Select Enable to enable bidirectional traffic flow.
Client Profile
Protocol Level	Select HTTP version. If you select different HTTP versions for client and server, HTTP 1.1 will backward compatibility with HTTP 1.0.
Keep Alive	Enable to add keepalive header. Only available when HTTP 1.0 is selected in Protocol Level.
Request Header	The HTTP header of the request packet. Click the Add button to specify more headers. Wild card is supported.
Client Close Mode	Select the connection close method: 3Way_Fin or Reset.
Quiet Shutdown	Enable to apply safe shutdown procedure to SSL connections by sending SSL alert to the peer.
PSK/SRP	Enable to support PSK and SRP ciphers.
PSK/SRP Username	Username for PSK and SRP ciphers.
PSK/SRP Password	PSK/SRP for PSK and SRP ciphers.
Available SSL Versions	Select SSL versions. TLSv1.3 and other SSL versions are mutually exclusive. This means you can’t select TLSv1.3 at the same time with other SSL versions.
SSL Ciphers	Select one or more SSL ciphers from the list.
Elliptic Curve	Select the Elliptic Curve that the client support for key exchanges. Only available when you select TLSv1.3.
Send TLS Extension SNI	Enable to send a TLS SNI extension in the client's hello message to the server to indicate the name of the server to be connected.
Session Resumption	Disabled (turns off session resumption). Resume Session by Ticket: Select this option to simulate a client presenting a ticket to a TLS server, having originated from that server, for the purpose of resuming a TLS session. Resume Session by Session: Select this option to simulate a user attempting to use the same SSL Session ID, initially negotiated with the server. This option applies only to TLS v1 and TLS v1.2. It does not apply to TLS v1.3.
Transactions Before Renegotiation	The maximum number of TLS transactions that will use the same session.
Enable Client Certificate	Enable the client authentication for HTTPS cases.
Certificate	Select the certificate created in Performance Testing > Objects > Certificates. Available only when Enable Client Certificate is enabled.
Transactions Before Renegotiation	The maximum number of TLS transactions that will use the same session.
Piggyback Get Requests	If enabled, this means an acknowledgment is sent on the data frame, not in an individual frame. Otherwise, it sends an ACK frame individually. This feature only works with get/post requests.
Source Port Range	Specify a client port range. The valid range is 10,000 to 65,535, which is also the default.
IP Change Algorithm/Port Change Algorithm	Select a change algorithm: Increment or Random. This setting determines how the system changes source/destination IP addresses and ports to simulate multiple client requests. The Increment option uses the next IP address or port in the range, for example: 10.11.12.1 -> 10.11.12.2; port 10000 -> 10001. The Random option selects an IP address or port in the range randomly.
Server Profile
Protocol Level	Select HTTP version. If you select different HTTP versions for client and server, HTTP 1.1 will backward compatibility with HTTP 1.0.
Keep Alive	Enable to add keepalive header. Only available when HTTP 1.0 is selected in Protocol Level.
Response Header	The HTTP header of the response packet. Click the Add button to specify more headers.
Case Server Port	The server port where the test case traffic arrives.
Certificate	Select the certificates you have created in Performance Testing > Objects > Certificate Groups. If you have selected a certificate group in the Select case options window, then you are not allowed to select certificate here. If you have selected ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers for the client, then you must reference an ECC certificate for the server, otherwise the SSL handshake will fail.
Enable SNI	Enable to select the SNI certificate group that specifies a list of host names that the server will use to match the host name in the SNI extension of client hello message.
SNI Certificate	Select the SNI Certificate created in Performance Testing > Objects > SNI.
Strict SNI Check	When enabled, the transactions will be disconnected if the server can't find a certificate matched with the requested SNI host name. When disabled, the default certificate will be used for the SSL encryption.
Session Resumption	Disabled (turns off session resumption). Resume Session by Ticket: Select this option to simulate a client presenting a ticket to a TLS server, having originated from that server, for the purpose of resuming a TLS session. Resume Session by Session: Select this option to simulate a user attempting to use the same SSL Session ID, initially negotiated with the server.
Client/Server TCP Options
TCP Receive Window	The receive window in which you want the TCP stack to send TCP segments. The receive window informs the peer how many bytes of data the stack is currently able to receive. The supplied value is used in all segments sent by the stack. The valid range is 0 to 65535.
Delayed Acks	Select to cause the TCP stack to implement the Delayed ACK strategy, which attempts to minimize the transmission of zero-payload ACK packets. Acknowledgments will be deferred and should be piggybacked on top of valid data packets. If successfully deferred, these acknowledgments are free, in the sense that they consume no additional bandwidth.
Delayed Ack Timeout	If you select Delayed ACKs, use this timeout value to specify the maximum time the TCP stack waits to defer ACK transmission. If this timer expires, the stack transmits a zero-payload acknowledgment.
Timestamps Option	Select to add a TCP time stamp to each TCP segment.
Enable Push Flag	Select to set the TCP PSH (push) flag in all TCP packets. This flag causes buffered data to be pushed to the receiving application. If deselected, the PSH flag is not set in any TCP packet.
SACK Option	Select to enable TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options(SACK).
Enable TCP Keepalive	Select to enable TCP Keep-alive Timer.
Keepalive Timeout	If you enable TCP Keepalive, use this timeout value to specify the maximum time to send your peer a keep-alive probe packet
Keepalive Probes	If you enable TCP Keepalive, use this value to specify the maximum probes to detect the broken connection.
Override Internal Timeout Calculation	Select to override the TCP stack calculation of the retransmission timeout value.
Retransmission Timeout	If you select Override Internal Timeout Calculation, use this value for the first transmission of a particular data or control packet; it is doubled for each subsequent retransmission.
Retries	The number of times a timed-out packet is retransmitted before aborting further retransmission. If the client does not receive a response after the configured number of retries have been attempted, the error is logged in the results. CSV file as a TCP timeout when a SYN or FIN is sent, and no SYN/ACK or FIN/ACK from the server is received.
FinACK Timer	This value measures the amount of time that a SimUser waits after it finishes its actions and before it directly breaks all of its TCP connections (that is, the time to wait to receive the LAST_ACK message for a FIN request). A value of 0 disables the timer. Note: Setting this timer can adversely affect TCP performance.
Client/Server Network
Network MTU	The maximum transmission unit size.
Network MSS	The maximum segment size. If MSS is bigger than the MTU, IP fragmentation will be triggered conditionally.
IP Option DSCP	Provide quality of service (QoS).
Client Limit
Bandwidth	Bandwidth in Mbps. The default is 0, which means the device will send traffic as fast as possible.
Packets per Second	Rate of the packets per second. The default is 0, which means the device will create transactions as fast as possible.
Transactions per Second	Rate of new transactions per second. The default is 0, which means the device will send traffic as fast as possible. Available only under Client tab.
Server Limit
Bandwidth	Bandwidth in Mbps. The default is 0, which means the device will send traffic as fast as possible.
Packets per Second	Rate of the packets per second. The default is 0, which means the device will create transactions as fast as possible.
Action
Method	Three methods are available here: GET, POST, and Custom. If you select Custom, you can URL Group to configure/reuse a URL host group object of up to 1000 URLs. To configure a URL Group object, go to Performance Testing > Objects > URL Groups. NOTE: You can add URL Group hosts using existing Host Groups. NOTE: After being created, this imported Host Group has no relationship with the URL Group anymore.
POST Content	Select the POST content to use in requests. The file objects used here must first be created under Performance Testing > Objects > Files.
Request Page	Select System Pages with Fixed or Random File Name and Content.
Get page	Select the file that the simulated clients access. Optionally, you can select Custom to choose the file template you have created in Cases > Performance Testing > Objects > Files.
Post page	Select the file that simulated servers response. You can edit the post parameters. The file size limit is 10MB.
Response pages	The size of the response. Available only when Method is Custom.
HTTP Pipelining	Available only when Method is Custom.
Generate Random Content	Enable to generate random content in response package. Available only when Method is Custom.
Random Method	Select to use which method to generate random content.
Success criteria	Select criteria to determine if the test succeeds or fails. If the test does not meet the criteria set, the test fails. See Using success criteria.
Randomize File Name and Content	Enable or disable the sending of a random file name and response body based on the user-uploaded file.

Settings	Guidelines
Basic Information
Name	Specify the case name, or just use the default. The name appears in the list of test cases.
Ping Server Timeout	If a FortiTester connects to a DUT via a switch, the switch might cause a ping timeout, resulting in the test case failing to run. If this occurs, increase the timeout. The default is 15 seconds. The valid range is 0 to 600. NOTE: You can disable this end-to-end connectivity test by entering a setting of 0. If the DUT is unable to return packets, it is recommended you do so.
Number of Samples	Select the number of samples. The default is 20, which means the web UI will show the last 20 sample data (about 20 seconds) in the test case running page. You can select 20, 60, or 120.
Script Config	Select the script that will run before/after the test. To create a script, see Using script object templates.
Steady Duration	Specify the test duration. The default is 10 minutes. The test stops automatically after the duration you specify.
Stopping Status in Second	The maximum time out in seconds allotted for FortiTester to close all TCP connections after the test finishes.
DNS Host Group	Select the DNS host group to look up the IP address of a domain name. To create a DNS host group, see Creating DNS host group.
DUT Monitor	Select to monitor a FortiGate device under test (DUT). If selected, you can monitor the DUT from the DUT Monitor tab on the management interface. To create a DUT monitoring, see Using DUT monitoring.
Network Settings If you have selected a network config template, the network settings automatically inherit the configurations in the template. See Using network configuration templates for the description of network settings.
Load
Simulated Users	Number of users to simulate.
Connections per Second	Rate of new connections per second. The value must be greater than 0. If the user wants FortiTester to create connections as fast as possible, the user should set the Mode to Simulated Users. Available only when Connections/second is selected for Mode.
Ramp Up Time	The duration in seconds for which new sessions can be opened, attempting to reach the desired Connections per Second configured. (Range: 0 - 300). NOTE: If FortiTester cannot reach the Connections per Second configured during the specified Ramp Up Time, it will keep the highest CPS it reached during the Ramp Up Time.
Ramp Down Time	The duration in second during which the device ramps down the number of connections it is making. 0 will cause the FortiTester to cease generating sessions. (Range: 0 - 300).
HTTP Request Time Out	An HTTP request timeout occurs when an HTTP request is issued, but no data is responded back from the server within a certain time (in seconds). The timeout usually indicates an overwhelmed server or reverse proxy, or an outage of the back-end transactions processing servers. FortiTester will reset the connection upon timeout.
Bidirectional Traffic Flow	Select Enable to enable bidirectional traffic flow.
Client Profile
Protocol Level	Select HTTP version. If you select different HTTP versions for client and server, HTTP 1.1 will backward compatibility with HTTP 1.0.
Keep Alive	Enable to add keepalive header. Only available when HTTP 1.0 is selected in Protocol Level.
Request Header	The HTTP header of the request packet. Click the Add button to specify more headers. Wild card is supported.
Client Close Mode	Select the connection close method: 3Way_Fin or Reset.
Quiet Shutdown	Enable to apply safe shutdown procedure to SSL connections by sending SSL alert to the peer.
PSK/SRP	Enable to support PSK and SRP ciphers.
PSK/SRP Username	Username for PSK and SRP ciphers.
PSK/SRP Password	PSK/SRP for PSK and SRP ciphers.
Available SSL Versions	Select SSL versions. TLSv1.3 and other SSL versions are mutually exclusive. This means you can’t select TLSv1.3 at the same time with other SSL versions.
SSL Ciphers	Select one or more SSL ciphers from the list.
Elliptic Curve	Select the Elliptic Curve that the client support for key exchanges. Only available when you select TLSv1.3.
Send TLS Extension SNI	Enable to send a TLS SNI extension in the client's hello message to the server to indicate the name of the server to be connected.
Session Resumption	Disabled (turns off session resumption). Resume Session by Ticket: Select this option to simulate a client presenting a ticket to a TLS server, having originated from that server, for the purpose of resuming a TLS session. Resume Session by Session: Select this option to simulate a user attempting to use the same SSL Session ID, initially negotiated with the server. This option applies only to TLS v1 and TLS v1.2. It does not apply to TLS v1.3.
Transactions Before Renegotiation	The maximum number of TLS transactions that will use the same session.
Enable Client Certificate	Enable the client authentication for HTTPS cases.
Certificate	Select the certificate created in Performance Testing > Objects > Certificates. Available only when Enable Client Certificate is enabled.
Transactions Before Renegotiation	The maximum number of TLS transactions that will use the same session.
Piggyback Get Requests	If enabled, this means an acknowledgment is sent on the data frame, not in an individual frame. Otherwise, it sends an ACK frame individually. This feature only works with get/post requests.
Source Port Range	Specify a client port range. The valid range is 10,000 to 65,535, which is also the default.
IP Change Algorithm/Port Change Algorithm	Select a change algorithm: Increment or Random. This setting determines how the system changes source/destination IP addresses and ports to simulate multiple client requests. The Increment option uses the next IP address or port in the range, for example: 10.11.12.1 -> 10.11.12.2; port 10000 -> 10001. The Random option selects an IP address or port in the range randomly.
Server Profile
Protocol Level	Select HTTP version. If you select different HTTP versions for client and server, HTTP 1.1 will backward compatibility with HTTP 1.0.
Keep Alive	Enable to add keepalive header. Only available when HTTP 1.0 is selected in Protocol Level.
Response Header	The HTTP header of the response packet. Click the Add button to specify more headers.
Case Server Port	The server port where the test case traffic arrives.
Certificate	Select the certificates you have created in Performance Testing > Objects > Certificate Groups. If you have selected a certificate group in the Select case options window, then you are not allowed to select certificate here. If you have selected ECDHE-ECDSA ciphers for the client, then you must reference an ECC certificate for the server, otherwise the SSL handshake will fail.
Enable SNI	Enable to select the SNI certificate group that specifies a list of host names that the server will use to match the host name in the SNI extension of client hello message.
SNI Certificate	Select the SNI Certificate created in Performance Testing > Objects > SNI.
Strict SNI Check	When enabled, the transactions will be disconnected if the server can't find a certificate matched with the requested SNI host name. When disabled, the default certificate will be used for the SSL encryption.
Session Resumption	Disabled (turns off session resumption). Resume Session by Ticket: Select this option to simulate a client presenting a ticket to a TLS server, having originated from that server, for the purpose of resuming a TLS session. Resume Session by Session: Select this option to simulate a user attempting to use the same SSL Session ID, initially negotiated with the server.
Client/Server TCP Options
TCP Receive Window	The receive window in which you want the TCP stack to send TCP segments. The receive window informs the peer how many bytes of data the stack is currently able to receive. The supplied value is used in all segments sent by the stack. The valid range is 0 to 65535.
Delayed Acks	Select to cause the TCP stack to implement the Delayed ACK strategy, which attempts to minimize the transmission of zero-payload ACK packets. Acknowledgments will be deferred and should be piggybacked on top of valid data packets. If successfully deferred, these acknowledgments are free, in the sense that they consume no additional bandwidth.
Delayed Ack Timeout	If you select Delayed ACKs, use this timeout value to specify the maximum time the TCP stack waits to defer ACK transmission. If this timer expires, the stack transmits a zero-payload acknowledgment.
Timestamps Option	Select to add a TCP time stamp to each TCP segment.
Enable Push Flag	Select to set the TCP PSH (push) flag in all TCP packets. This flag causes buffered data to be pushed to the receiving application. If deselected, the PSH flag is not set in any TCP packet.
SACK Option	Select to enable TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options(SACK).
Enable TCP Keepalive	Select to enable TCP Keep-alive Timer.
Keepalive Timeout	If you enable TCP Keepalive, use this timeout value to specify the maximum time to send your peer a keep-alive probe packet
Keepalive Probes	If you enable TCP Keepalive, use this value to specify the maximum probes to detect the broken connection.
Override Internal Timeout Calculation	Select to override the TCP stack calculation of the retransmission timeout value.
Retransmission Timeout	If you select Override Internal Timeout Calculation, use this value for the first transmission of a particular data or control packet; it is doubled for each subsequent retransmission.
Retries	The number of times a timed-out packet is retransmitted before aborting further retransmission. If the client does not receive a response after the configured number of retries have been attempted, the error is logged in the results. CSV file as a TCP timeout when a SYN or FIN is sent, and no SYN/ACK or FIN/ACK from the server is received.
FinACK Timer	This value measures the amount of time that a SimUser waits after it finishes its actions and before it directly breaks all of its TCP connections (that is, the time to wait to receive the LAST_ACK message for a FIN request). A value of 0 disables the timer. Note: Setting this timer can adversely affect TCP performance.
Client/Server Network
Network MTU	The maximum transmission unit size.
Network MSS	The maximum segment size. If MSS is bigger than the MTU, IP fragmentation will be triggered conditionally.
IP Option DSCP	Provide quality of service (QoS).
Client Limit
Bandwidth	Bandwidth in Mbps. The default is 0, which means the device will send traffic as fast as possible.
Packets per Second	Rate of the packets per second. The default is 0, which means the device will create transactions as fast as possible.
Transactions per Second	Rate of new transactions per second. The default is 0, which means the device will send traffic as fast as possible. Available only under Client tab.
Server Limit
Bandwidth	Bandwidth in Mbps. The default is 0, which means the device will send traffic as fast as possible.
Packets per Second	Rate of the packets per second. The default is 0, which means the device will create transactions as fast as possible.
Action
Method	Three methods are available here: GET, POST, and Custom. If you select Custom, you can URL Group to configure/reuse a URL host group object of up to 1000 URLs. To configure a URL Group object, go to Performance Testing > Objects > URL Groups. NOTE: You can add URL Group hosts using existing Host Groups. NOTE: After being created, this imported Host Group has no relationship with the URL Group anymore.
POST Content	Select the POST content to use in requests. The file objects used here must first be created under Performance Testing > Objects > Files.
Request Page	Select System Pages with Fixed or Random File Name and Content.
Get page	Select the file that the simulated clients access. Optionally, you can select Custom to choose the file template you have created in Cases > Performance Testing > Objects > Files.
Post page	Select the file that simulated servers response. You can edit the post parameters. The file size limit is 10MB.
Response pages	The size of the response. Available only when Method is Custom.
HTTP Pipelining	Available only when Method is Custom.
Generate Random Content	Enable to generate random content in response package. Available only when Method is Custom.
Random Method	Select to use which method to generate random content.
Success criteria	Select criteria to determine if the test succeeds or fails. If the test does not meet the criteria set, the test fails. See Using success criteria.
Randomize File Name and Content	Enable or disable the sending of a random file name and response body based on the user-uploaded file.

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HTTPS test case common options

HTTPS test case common options

HTTPS test case common options

HTTPS test case common options