ACS:Performance values for external database authentication

[o-ziltener]

Hello

does anybody knows some raw performance values on the ACS for Windows when I use a MS AD database instead the locally database compare to the following values (CCO info)

he hardware for testing the ACS system was configured as follows:

Cisco Secure ACS

HP Kayak 1.6 GHz, 256 MB RAM

Cisco Secure ACS v3.1 Internal database with 100,000 users in the database

300 access points

The following test results for LEAP, PEAP and EAP-TLS authentications are raw authentication rates. They do not include network latency, reliability, or user distribution factors.

* Sustained LEAP:

90 authentications per second

Sustained EAP-TLS:

32 authentications per second

Sustained PEAP:

32 authentications per second

any inout is welcome

Oliver

[#2]

You would have to modify the registry to get ACS to accept a larger number of RADIUS requests at any given time. To do this, you will have to change the "auththreads" key under "hkey_local_machine\software\cisco\ciscoaaav3.2\csradius" to the maximum decimal value(255).

[o-ziltener]

Hello

thanks for the feedback.

Will this registry setting improve local and external database requests or just the local requests?

best regards

Oliver