OSS Search Archival Plugin Test

The Archival and Schema plugins are internal components of the SharePoint Search engine, typically responsible for processing the metadata of indexed documents. By monitoring these components, administrators can efficiently evaluate how well the SharePoint search feature is functioning, identify irregularities early, and fine-tune the SharePoint server to ensure peak performance of the search engine.

The OSS Search Archival Plugin test focuses on the archival plugin component, and helps assess its processing ability.

Target of the test : A Microsoft SharePoint Server

Agent deploying the test : An internal agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results each for the ProfileImport and Portal_Content instances

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameters	Description
Test period	This indicates how often should the test be executed.
Host	The host for which the test is to be configured.
Port	The port at which the host server listens.

Measurements made by the test
Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit
Queues available	Indicates the current number of upload queues that are available to filtering threads.	Number
Queues committing	Indicates the current number of queues that are committing changes and completing uploads.	Number
Queues waiting	Indicates the current number of queues that are waiting to flush data to the property store.	Number
Queues filtering	Indicates the number of queues used by filter threads.	Number
Bulk insert sessions	Indicates the number of active bulk insert sessions to the database server.	Number
Retried documents	Indicates the number of documents which were marked for retry from the plugin.	Number
Blocked documents	Indicates the number of documents waiting for a queue.	Number