Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of Hybrid Cloud Observability and is also available in a standalone module, Server & Application Monitor (SAM). Hybrid Cloud Observability and SAM are built on the self-hosted SolarWinds Platform.

RADIUS User Experience Monitor

Assign this SAM application monitor template to a node to track how long it takes to perform basic user authentication using the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) protocol.

Prerequisites

The SolarWinds Platform can access the target RADIUS system.

The SolarWinds Platform server and target system support Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) authentication. If necessary, create a RADIUS policy on the SolarWinds Platform server.

Credentials

Provide RADIUS credentials, including a secret key.

Component monitors

The main component monitor in this template is the RADIUS User Experience Monitor. It uses a synthetic transaction to:

  1. Connect to a target system.
  2. Log in with RADIUS credentials and a secret key.
  3. Validate a response.
  4. Measure the response time.

For details, see RADIUS User Experience Monitor.

To learn about the other component monitors in this template:

  1. Navigate to the Manage Application Monitor Templates page.
  2. Select this template.
  3. Click Edit to display component monitor details.