Patent ID: 7133805

Claim:
A system to monitor a load test of a computer system, comprising: a plurality of agents, each operable on at least one of a plurality of application servers to report server statistics of each of the application servers; a monitor operable to receive at least some of the server statistics from the at least some of the plurality of agents; a load generation tool operable to send a plurality of transactions to load test one or more of the plurality of application servers, the load generation tool operable to generate a display for each of the plurality of application servers, the display containing at least one transaction statistic of one of the application servers; a screen analyzer operable to capture as an image a portion of at least one of the displays containing the transaction statistic for one of the application servers and to convert the image into a text number; and a dashboard component operable to receive the server statistics from the monitor and to receive the at least one transaction statistics from the screen analyzer as a text number, the dashboard component further operable to generate a dashboard display including the server statistics and the transaction statistics; wherein the plurality of agents are further defined as plurality of performance agents and a plurality of communications agents, each operable on at least one of the plurality of application servers the performance agents operable to report a performance statistic of each of the application servers, the communication agents operable to report a communication statistic of each of the application servers; wherein the monitor is further defined as a plurality of monitors each operable to receive performance statistics from at least one of the performance agents and further receive communication statistics from at least one of the communication agents, the monitor operable to receive performance statistics and communication statistics from the performance and communication agents; and wherein the received communication statistics comprise the message queue depth of each of the application servers.