This test reports the rate at which Kerberos, NTLM, and Digest authentication requests are serviced by the AD server and thus promptly reveals delays in authentication (if any). Where latencies are noticed in Kerberos requests, the test goes one step further and indicates the probable source of the latencies - could it be because the KDC took too long to grant TGTs to the clients? or is it because the KDC took too long to process the TGTs and grant the clients access to authorized resources?

This test applies only to Active Directory Servers installed on Windows 2008.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the ADAuthPerfmonTest.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with “$” indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to “xyz” and $port will be changed to “80” when configuring a test.