Authentication Agent - Dynamic Load Balancing

[AdrianJones]

RSA Authentication Agent 7.3.3 for Microsoft Windows

The Installation Guide explains in Appendix A how Dynamic Load Balancing of the Agent works.

Could you provide some additional details on:

1. What response time from the AM server does it measure. Is it a network ping or does it attempt a trial authentication ?

2. How often does the Agent perform the time requests against the AM servers to ensure the priority list is still valid ?

[EdwardDavis · Accepted solution]

1) it attempts an authentication

2) when an authentication is attempted

[AdrianJones]

Thanks for your response.

With regard point 2.So it does a check of the response times before every authentication. So if we have 1000 Users authenticating concurrently we will have 1000 Agents all doing a check of the response times from each AM server. That seems quite an overhead doesn't it ?