SM Authorization Test
This test reports statistics pertaining to the user authorizations to the policy server.
Target of the test : A SiteMinder Policy server
Agent deploying the test : An internal agent
Outputs of the test : One set of results for every SiteMinder Policy server being monitored.
Parameter | Description |
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Test period |
How often should the test be executed |
Host |
The host for which the test is to be configured. |
Port |
The port number of the administration service (see Figure 2) in the policy server |
LogOption |
Currently, this test collects measures by parsing the log files. Therefore, specify "logFile" as the LogOption. Future versions of eG may include support for database logging. |
Path |
The full path to the log file. For example, "D:\Progra~1\Netegrity\SiteMinder\Log\smaccess.log". |
AgentNames |
A comma-separated list of agent names. |
Detailed Diagnosis |
To make diagnosis more efficient and accurate, the eG Enterprise embeds an optional detailed diagnostic capability. With this capability, the eG agents can be configured to run detailed, more elaborate tests as and when specific problems are detected. To enable the detailed diagnosis capability of this test for a particular server, choose the On option. To disable the capability, click on the Off option. The option to selectively enable/disable the detailed diagnosis capability will be available only if the following conditions are fulfilled:
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Measurement | Description | Measurement Unit | Interpretation |
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Authorization accepts |
The total number of users authorized to access the resource during the last measurement period. |
Number |
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Authorization rejects |
The total number of users not authorized to access the resource during the last measurement period. |
Number |
The detailed diagnosis of this measure, if enabled, provides the details of the authorization attempts that were rejected by the SM Policy server. |
Authorization rejects pct |
The percentage of authorization rejects during the last measurement period. |
Percent |
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In order to ensure that the SM Admin Test, SM Authentication Test, and SM Authorization Test function effectively, audit logging has to be enabled for the SiteMinder policy server. To achieve this, do the following:
- Open the "SiteMinder Policy Server Management Console" using the menu sequence depicted by Figure 1.
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Click on the Settings tab to open it.
- In the Audit Logging section present at the bottom of this tab (see Figure 1), click on the Audit User Activity and Audit Administrative Activity check boxes.
- Then, select the Text File option, and specify the full path to the log file that is to be used for audit logging. Ensure that the same path is specified against the Path parameter of the SM Admin Test, SM Authentication Test, and SM Authorization Test, respectively.
- Finally, click the Apply button and then the OK button to register the changes.