eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by SmServicesTest

The test measures the availability of the Siteminder Policy Server services (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting, and Administration), and the time taken by the policy server for performing authentication and authorization checks.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Auth_port_status The status of the Authentication service running on the given port Percent A value of 100 for this measure indicates that the service is running. A 0 value indicates that the service is down.
Az_port_status The status of the Authorization service running on the given port Percent A value of 100 for this measure indicates that the service is running. A 0 value indicates that the service is down.
Acct_port_status The status of the Accounting service running on the given port Percent A value of 100 for this measure indicates that the service is running. A 0 value indicates that the service is down.
Admin_port_status The status of the Admin service running on the given port Percent A value of 100 for this measure indicates that the service is running. A 0 value indicates that the service is down.
User_login_status The status of the user login check performed by the policy server Percent A value of 100 for this measure indicates that the configured user for this test is authenticated. A 0 value indicates that the authentication process failed.
User_login_time Time taken by the policy server to perform a login check Secs  
User_az_status The status of the user authorizatiin check performed by the policy server Percent A value of 100 for this measure indicates that the configured user for this test is authorized for the configured resource. A 0 value indicates that the authorization process failed.
User_az_time Time taken by the policy server for performing the authorization check Secs  
Total_time Total time taken by the test for initialization of agent api object, for connecting to the policy server, checking whether the configured resource is protected or not, authentication check, authorization check and for uninitialization of the agent api object. Secs