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The test environment was set-up using simulated components i.e. A&AI, VFC and SO using "features enable controlloop-utils". However the performance test subscribes to the POLICY-CL-MGT topic, which is not simulated, to determine when the PDP has completed various steps have completed.
The performance test runs 10 simultaneous threads injecting ONSET messages. In each thread, each of the different types of ONSETs is injected and processed in a serial fashion, first vCPE is injected and its associated APPC requests are answered, then vFirewall is injected, and so on. Each thread repeats this process 1000 times.
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