Using WCAT to Measure Security Overhead

WCAT is a script-driven, command-line – based application that tests your server configuration using a variety of predetermined, unvarying workloads. You can use WCAT to test how your server responds to different workloads or test the same workload on varying configurations of the server.

The WCAT toolkit includes a folder of prepared test workloads. You can also use WCAT to create your own workloads. WCAT also includes a special option, ssl.testname, that adds SSL protocol settings to any workload test.

WCAT is included on the Windows NT Server Resource Kit Supplement 1 CD. Detailed instructions for using WCAT are in the WCAT folder accessible from Rktools.hlp.