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In the RSA Authentication Manager appliance, administrator can store data in the internal database (which is installed within the appliance), or one or more LDAP directories (called an identity source within the appliance). If the appliance uses the internal database alone, all users, applications, user group, policy, and token data are stored only in the internal database. If the appliance is integrated with external identity sources such as Microsoft Active Directory, Sun Java System Directory Server or Oracle Directory Server, only user and user group data reside in the external identity source. The policy and token data are stored in the internal database of the appliance. Each type of data source manages and accesses data differently for processing the authentication requests. By continuously monitoring the data sources, administrator can easily find out the bottle-neck condition (if any) at the data sources, which affects the performance of the appliance. This is what exactly the RSADataSourceTest test does!

This test auto-discovers the data sources in the appliance and reveals how well the authentication requests are processed?, is the processing bottle-neck caused due to failed authentication requests? how quickly the responses for the received authentication requests are sent? and how many connections are currently active?

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
Total_requests	Indicates the total number of authentication requests that were processed in this data source during the last measurement period.	Number	A high value of this measure could indicate a potential overload.
Request_rate	Indicates the rate at which the authentication requests are serviced successfully in this data source.	Requests/Sec	A high value is desired for this measure.
Failed_requests	Indicates the number of authentication requests that were failed in this data source during the last measurement period.	Number	The value 0 is desired for this measure. Further investigation is required if a non-zero value is reported by this measure.
Avg_response_time	Indicates the time taken by this data source to respond to the authentication requests it receives.	Milliseconds	Ideally, the value of this measure should be low.
Active_connections	Indicates the number of connections that are currently active in this data source.	Number	A high value is desired for this measure. A high value for this measure indicates that a large number of connections are opened for receiving the requests.