CPAPI-Stats

Data related to Check Point API calls for statistical analysis

This data came from my attempts to optimize my API calls for some development. The VMs are running in VirtualBox on a macpro5,1 with two Xeon X5675 processors, 96 GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 RAM, and a 2 TB Western Digital Blue SATA SSD.

The 2200 has been modified. I gave it 8 GB of RAM and replaced its spinning hard drive with a 400 GB Intel S3700 SSD. The processor supports Hyperthreading, but it is disabled in the firmware, the firmware controls are locked behind a password, and I haven't bothered with cracking that password yet.

On the VMs, I used this script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
TIMEFORMAT='%R'
filePrefix="vm$(egrep "^processor\s" /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l)$(grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo | awk '{GB = $2/1000000} END {printf "%02.0f\n", GB}')"
limits=(500 400 300 200 100 1)
details=("Full" "UID")
for callLimit in ${limits[@]}; do
	for callDetails in ${details[@]}; do
		{ for iteration in $(seq 1 1000);do
			sleep 2
			time mgmt_cli -r true \
				--format json \
				show application-sites \
				limit "${callLimit}" \
				details-level "${callDetails}" \
				> /dev/null
			done } 2> "${filePrefix}AppSites${callLimit}${callDetails}.txt"
		done
	done

On the 2200, I use a similar script, but with a manual file prefix.

For basic analysis, I've been using this:

for FILE in $(ls -1 *500Full.txt);do
	echo $FILE
	echo "min = $(sort -n $FILE | head -n 1)"
	awk '{sum += $1} END {print "mean = " sum/NR}' $FILE
	awk '{sum+=$1; sumsq+=$1*$1} END {print "stdev = " sqrt(sumsq/NR - (sum/NR)**2)}' $FILE
	echo "max = $(sort -n $FILE | tail -n 1)"
	echo ""
	done