Performance metrics monitoring tools for Policy Server and Agents

Products

• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On Agents (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On Federation (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder)
• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

When running a Policy Server, how to monitor authentication and authorization response times in order to evaluate performance of Siteminder Policy Server?

Is there such a functionality?

 

Resolution

At first glance, Policy Server logs and traces are for debugging the services and transactions.

In order to monitor the authentication and authorization response times and other activities, there are 2 other tools:

• Oneview Monitor;
• SNMP pooling.

The OneView monitoring provides instant statistics, at the time of consulting the statistics (1)(2)(3).

The SNMP pooling will help to get instant monitoring as per OneView monitor, plus it allows to keep historical data, and depending the external tool gets the SNMP data, to build graphs on the current and historical data (4)(5).

 

Additional Information

 

 

1. Use OneView Monitor to Analyze Performance
   
   
2. Install OneView Monitor
   
   
3. Access the OneView Viewer
   
   
4. Monitoring SiteMinder Using SNMP
   
   
5. Install and Configure SNMP Support