Measures reported by RSACacheTest

Cache that is right-sized and well-used can significantly enhance performance of the RSA Authentication Manager! The cache is said to be effectively utilized only if it is able to service the maximum number of requests to the Authentication Manager; this greatly reduces direct disk accesses and related overheads, and thus improves performance. On the contrary, ineffective cache usage can be the key contributor to a slowdown or degradation in performance, as it increases disk accesses. To understand how the caches are utilized and to promptly capture abnormalities in cache usage, administrators have to continuously monitor the size of each cache. If the cache is not updated for a prolonged time period, then the requests served by the cache may contain obsolete entities. This may cause old policies and data of user group to be pushed to the users, which in turn may pose a serious security thread to the mobile data.

This test monitors each cache of the appliance and reports its usage - both in terms of size and its request serving ability. In the process, the test proactively alerts administrators to the under-utilization and improper size of the cache, and helps them quickly initiate corrective measures.

The measures made by this test are as follows: