To generate web traffic, there are two components involved. The servers and the clients. Each group has its own agent so that multiple implementations can be used for both client and server.
The client agent inherits from the Traffic Client Interface interfave and uses wget to perform requests on an interval to a set of server nodes. The user can specify the URL that is requested as well as a distribution for sizes. The default URL is ‘http://%s/getsize.py?length=%d‘ where %s becomes the server address and %d becomes the length value picked.
The server agent uses apache to serve up files over HTTP. It can be started, stopped and configured as per the Shared Server Interface interface.