Performance monitoring
Performance monitoring allows you to monitor specific parts of OneSpan Authentication Server processing to get performance statistics.
OneSpan Authentication Server uses filters to define what to monitor. The different supported plug-ins are used to control how to deliver that data. Filters are applied to all possible output plug-ins.
Filters
Performance monitoring uses filters to determine which specific parts of OneSpan Authentication Server processing should be monitored.
A filter contains the name of a performance transaction. You can specify a single performance transaction, or you can use an asterisk '*' as wildcard character to identify a group of transactions.
In the OneSpan Authentication Server Configuration Utility click Add to define a filter. Type a filter pattern in the Transaction Filter box. This pattern must consist of the name of a performance transaction.
The position of the asterisk determines what performance transactions will be filtered. For example:
- *administration.logon. If you place the asterisk at the beginning, all performance transactions that end with administration.logon will be monitored.
- *administration*. If you place an asterisk at the beginning and the end, everything related to administration will be monitored.
- identikey.scenario.signature*. If you place the asterisk at the end, all performance transactions starting with identikey.scenario.signature will be monitored.
- identikey*logon. If you place the asterisk in the middle, all performance transactions starting with identikey and ending with logon will be monitored.
For a complete list of available performance transactions, refer to the OneSpan Authentication Server Administrator Reference.
Plug-ins
Performance monitoring uses several plug-ins to define its output.
CSV plug-in
The CSV plug-in allows you to define a comma-separated file (CSV) to write the results to. To enable the CSV plug-in, click Enable CSV Plugin in the Performance Monitoring tab.
Counter plug-in
To enable the counter plug-in, click Enable Counter Plugin in the Performance Monitoring tab.
The Counter plug-in records statistics on transactions specified in the filter. The counters are available via SNMP on both Windows and Linux. When using the Counter plug-in, you can only filter on performance monitoring counters. The Counter plug-in does not filter on scenario counters.
The Counter plug-in generates data relating to the number of times certain transactions have been performed, and relevant timing information for those transactions. The SNMP server on which the Counter plug-in enters the data is the one running on OneSpan Authentication Server.
The counter data can be viewed using SNMP.
For the Counter plug-in to work, you need to enable system monitoring
ARM4 plug-in
The ARM4 plug-in allows you to define an Application Response Measurement application.