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Performance Tuning Roadmap

Performance tuning is an iterative process, and as such, it is important to address the Web, Application, and Data tiers on an individual basis to understand how each can affect overall performance. You can often achieve better performance by changing configuration settings in SOA Agents, Policy Servers, or the SOA Security Manager policy objects themselves. The following diagram represents a standard deployment and details the individual components that are central to performance.

1. The types of web and application servers deployed in your environment can affect how a SOA Agent and Policy Server communicate.
2. The number of available sockets can affect the efficiency in which a SOA Agent and Policy Server communicate.
3. SOA Security Manager policy design can affect the efficiency with which the Policy Server services authentication and authorization requests.
4. The Policy Server performs a series of services to authenticate and authorize users. These services result in number of reads and writes, collectively known as requests, to a user directory. A contributing factor to SOA Security Manager performance is determining whether your user directories can handle this workload during sustained and peak periods of operation.
5. The user directory itself can affect SOA Security Manager performance.

More information:

Web Server Performance

Web Tier Socket Usage

Reduce Traffic between Your Agents and the Policy Server

SOA Security Manager Policy Design and Performance

User Store Capacity Planning

Data Tier Guidelines