6.3 Journal Entry

Finally, it's good to add a journal entry whenever you did some maintenance work. Although this journal feature is optional in HPF, it can be a very useful tool for documenting what affected the benchmark results. For example, HPF may fail due to a network interruption, a MySQL DB failure, and a full file system. If such extra ordinary event occurs, you can write a log easily with the journal form provided by HPF.

In HPF, there is a dedicated MySQL table called "journal" and you can easily add a new entry and view it later. To add a journal entry, click the "Add" link in the "Add / View journal entry" on the HPF main web page. An HTML form will appear and it'll ask a confirmation with preview page once you filled out the form. To view the entire content of the "journal" table, click the "View" link.