To Tune the Access Manager Configuration Store and SMS LDAP Configuration

The Service Management (SMS) LDAP Configuration is used for storing and retrieving all Access Manager configuration and Policy Service configuration. The SMS LDAP Configuration is stored in the serverconfig.xml file under the Access Manager config directory. The server group is sms.

1. Start by setting all the connection pool configurations with MIN=8 and MAX=32.

2. If you must make adjustments based on performance test results, adhere to the following requirements:

   • The MIN value should be at least 8.

   • The MAX value for any pool should not be greater than 64. The MAX value of 32 is enough for most typical deployments.

   Special requirements are outside the scope of this document.

3. After following steps 1 and 2, if low throughput or low response times persist, then try the following solutions:

   • Verify that the Directory Server instance is not at 100% CPU usage. If the Directory Server instance is at 100% and the throughput is still low, revisit the indexing on the Directory Server entries. Be sure that Directory Server indexing is configured properly.

   • Run load tests to verify that Access Manager login is not causing performance to slow down. First run the tests with logging enabled, and then run the tests with logging disabled. If you find that logging is causing low response time, then you can tune the logging service through the Access Manager console. See Logging in Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1 Administration Reference.