Silk Performer offers a plug-in interface which extends Silk Performer’s compatibility to third-party technologies, enabling coordination and control of third-party technologies from within the Silk Performer environment.
The controls that are available for plug-ins vary based on the functionality offered by each plug-in. By default, each plug-in offers the following attributes through the Silk Performer System Settings dialog:
On the General page:
Depending on available plug-in functionality, other tabs and configurable attributes may also be available.
Silk Performer offers a plug-in framework for third-party diagnostics tools. The framework enables third-party tool vendors to integrate into one or more of the following tools:
The Silk Performer plug-in can be used to modify profile settings so that the runtime sends an additional HTTP header tag with each page request. The same functionality is available through the WebSetHttpTag BDL function.
When a user selects an API node, TrueLog Explorer passes the plug-in header and body, including the additional HTTP tag. TrueLog Explorer’s lower-right window includes an additional tab for each enabled plug-in. The plug-in tabs are Internet Explorer controls, so plug-ins can present anything that can be expressed through HTML.
Plug-ins can use the HTTP tag to identify traces and present complete component break-downs for each web page call.
Plug-ins that implement the PerfExp plug-in interface can be called from the (OVR) Overview Report/Ranking section. Overview reports show plug-in related icons for each ranking measurement for which the plug-in can provide in-depth information.