Windows packet loss
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Description
Ensure your Windows systems can detect and route around resources that fail health checks. This Scenario gradually increases packet loss to validate health check and load balancer behavior.
What this Scenario does
This Scenario gradually increases packet loss on a targeted Windows Server host, simulating degraded network conditions. This tests whether your health checks detect the degradation and whether your load balancer removes the unhealthy Windows host from rotation.
Why run this Scenario?
- Validate that health check thresholds on your Windows infrastructure are configured to detect packet loss before users are impacted.
- Verify that load balancers remove unhealthy Windows hosts from rotation and redistribute traffic to healthy ones.
- Test that Windows network monitoring detects packet loss and triggers alerts with appropriate urgency.
- Ensure that Windows hosts are returned to service correctly once packet loss resolves.
Expected outcome
As packet loss degrades network communications on a Windows host, health checks mark it as unhealthy and the load balancer distributes requests to other healthy hosts.
