Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and is available in the Essentials edition. Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is also available in a standalone module.

Microsoft Network Policy Server RADIUS Server

This SAM application monitor template assesses the status and overall performance of a Microsoft Network Policy Server (NPS) configured as a RADIUS server.

Apply this template if you have NPS installed as a RADIUS server.

Prerequisites

WMI access to the target server.

Credentials

Windows Administrator on the target server.

Component monitors

Set thresholds for counters according to your environment. It is recommended to monitor counters for some period of time to understand potential value ranges and then set the thresholds accordingly.

Service: Network Policy Server

This monitor returns the CPU and memory usage of the Network Policy Server service. This service manages authentication, authorization, auditing, and accounting for virtual private network (VPN), dial-up, 802.1x wireless or Ethernet switch connection attempts sent by access servers that are compatible with the IETF RADIUS protocol. If this service is stopped, users might be unable to obtain a VPN, dial-up, wireless, or Ethernet connection to the network. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.

Accounting: Accounting-Requests/sec

This monitor returns the average number of RADIUS Accounting-Requests received on the accounting port, per second.

Accounting: Accounting-Responses/sec

This monitor returns the average number of RADIUS Accounting-Responses sent per second.

Accounting: Server Reset Time

This monitor returns the time elapsed (in hundredths of a second) since the configuration of this NPS server was reset because of a configuration change or because the service control manager sent a reset to the NPS service.

Accounting: Server Up Time

This monitor returns the time elapsed (in hundredths of a second) since the server process was started on this NPS server.

Authentication: Access-Accepts/sec

This monitor returns the average number of RADIUS Access-Accept packets sent per second.

Authentication: Access-Challenges/sec

This monitor returns the average number of RADIUS Access-Challenge packets sent per second.

Authentication: Access-Rejects/sec

This monitor returns the average number of RADIUS Access-Reject packets sent per second.

Authentication: Access-Requests/sec

This monitor returns the average number of packets received per second on the authentication port.

Authentication: Bad Authenticators/sec

This monitor returns the average number of RADIUS packets per second that contain an invalid Message Authenticator attribute.

Authentication: Dropped Packets/sec

This monitor returns the average number of incoming packets per second that are silently discarded for a reason other than "malformed," "invalid Message Authenticator," or "unknown type."

Authentication: FullAccess-Decisions/sec

This monitor returns the average number of Full-Access decisions sent per second to this client.

Authentication: Malformed Packets/sec

This monitor returns the average number of packets containing malformed data received per second.

Authentication: Probation-Decisions/sec

This monitor returns the average number of probation decisions sent per second to this client.

Authentication: Quarantine-Decisions/sec

This monitor returns the average number of quarantine decisions sent per second to this client.

Authentication: Unknown Type/sec

This monitor returns the average number of unknown type (non-RADIUS) packets received per second.

Authentication: Invalid Requests/sec

This monitor returns the average number of RADIUS packets from unknown clients or remote RADIUS servers received per second.

Policy Engine: Last Round-Trip Time

This monitor returns the interval (in hundredths of a second) between the most recent request to the policy engine and its response.

Policy Engine: Matched Remote Access Policies/sec

This monitor returns the average number of remote access policies that were matched per second.

Policy Engine: Pending Requests

This monitor returns the number of requests that have entered the policy engine but have not yet completed the process.