Monitoring Microsoft Certificate Authority Server

eG Enterprise provides a specialized monitoring model for the Microsoft Certificate Authority Server.

Figure 1 : Layer model for Microsoft Certificate Authority Server

Each layer of this model is associated with tests that report on a wide variety of KPIs related to the Microsoft Certificate Authority Server. Using the metrics so reported, administrators can find quick and accurate answers for the following performance queries:

• How many active connections are requesting certificates?
• What is the rate at which certificate requests of each certificate type were processed?
• How many certificate requests of each certificate type were issued per second?
• How many certificate requests of each certificate type were pending per second?
• How many certificate requests failed to be processed for each certificate typeper second?
• What is the processing time per request for each certificate type?
• What is the cryptographic signing time of a certificate request for each certificate type?
• What is the Policy module processing time per certificate request for each certificate type?
• How many certificates have already expired?
• How many certificates are about to expire?
• Is the RPC user interface available?
• Is the RPC admin interface available?
• What is the time taken by the RPC server to respond to requests?

Since the bottom seven layers are already discussed in the Monitoring Unix and Windows Servers document, we will be taking only the CAS Services layer up for discussion.