I have two simple Transaction of accessing a IBM Cognos home page and then another that does the same thing but then goes one layer deeper for a report page. The recording of these two translation went just fine and the play back works great. But then I got the phone call for from a Cognos support team member which then told me in one fail-swoop I brought down the site. So in essences I created a DDOS attack (we won't tell the boss); The play backs are chewing up the total amount of allow connections. Now I deployed this transaction to 7 nodes for play back every 7 minutes.
Is there a setting I can tweak or change on how many times a connection is made? Now to note, in order to access this Cognos home page and report page it does require a certain level of authentication/acess; which does work from my SEUM playback service accounts. Just don't know why accessing two pages takes up so many connections. So before I am consider a inside threat and deemed a menace to the reporting team; I could use some help or suggestions.
Oh yeah they (the dark-side "they have cookies" ) did provide me a report showing my SEUM service accounts taking up allot of logins (all of them). Just when you thought it was safe to be proactive! LoL