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Increase the Amount of Available Sockets for the Web Agent

If your capacity planning estimates reveal that the number of user requests per Web Agent exceeds 60 at any given moment (20 requests in process and 40 in the queue), increase the value of the MaxSocketsPerPort parameter.

After increasing the value of the MaxSocketsPerPort parameter in the Administrative UI, verify that the Max Connections setting in the Policy Server Management Console is high enough to accommodate all the Web Agent processes in your SiteMinder environment. This setting determines the maximum number of connections available to a specific Policy Server.

Note: For multiprocess web servers (such as an Apache-based server in pre-fork mode), you can reduce this number of sockets to one. Because each process uses only a single thread to communicate with the SiteMinder Policy Server, only one socket is required.