https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-access-control/tacacs-performance/m-p/3749496#M488020 <DIV class="entry-content lotusPostDetails"> <P dir="ltr">Hi team,</P> <P dir="ltr">&nbsp;</P> <P dir="ltr">15k RADIUS concurrent sessions and around 2k of TPS, quoting 2 ISE medium appliances for PAN+MnT+PSN and 2 dedicated small appliances for T+. I would like to doublecheck this is correct, because community link has two key sentences around TACACS+ performance:</P> <P dir="ltr">&nbsp;</P> <P dir="ltr">Platform performance specs are for a dedicated PSN.</P> <P dir="ltr">PAN and MNT nodes are deployed as separate node(s).</P> <P dir="ltr">&nbsp;</P> <P dir="ltr">Do we really require dedicated PAN+MnT with separate PSN to achieve TPS scale as listed under TACACS+ Performance table in the ISE scale community link or simply dedicating nodes for T+ functionality suffices?</P> <P dir="ltr">&nbsp;</P> <P dir="ltr">Thanks.</P> <P dir="ltr">/Peter</P> </DIV> Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:02:10 GMT pmesjar 2018-11-19T19:02:10Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-access-control/tacacs-performance/m-p/3749496#M488020 <DIV class="entry-content lotusPostDetails"> <P dir="ltr">Hi team,</P> <P dir="ltr">&nbsp;</P> <P dir="ltr">15k RADIUS concurrent sessions and around 2k of TPS, quoting 2 ISE medium appliances for PAN+MnT+PSN and 2 dedicated small appliances for T+. I would like to doublecheck this is correct, because community link has two key sentences around TACACS+ performance:</P> <P dir="ltr">&nbsp;</P> <P dir="ltr">Platform performance specs are for a dedicated PSN.</P> <P dir="ltr">PAN and MNT nodes are deployed as separate node(s).</P> <P dir="ltr">&nbsp;</P> <P dir="ltr">Do we really require dedicated PAN+MnT with separate PSN to achieve TPS scale as listed under TACACS+ Performance table in the ISE scale community link or simply dedicating nodes for T+ functionality suffices?</P> <P dir="ltr">&nbsp;</P> <P dir="ltr">Thanks.</P> <P dir="ltr">/Peter</P> </DIV> Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:02:10 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-access-control/tacacs-performance/m-p/3749496#M488020 pmesjar 2018-11-19T19:02:10Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-access-control/tacacs-performance/m-p/3749508#M488021 <P>Hi,</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Yes, they must be dedicated to achieve those performance numbers.&nbsp; The reason is that MnT is the bottleneck because it is I/O intensive on the hard disk.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Regards,</P> <P>-Tim</P> Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:22:17 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-access-control/tacacs-performance/m-p/3749508#M488021 Timothy Abbott 2018-11-19T19:22:17Z