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PMDB Location on Disk

All PMDBs on a computer reside in a common directory. The _pmd_directory_ value in the following subkey of the Windows registry specifies the name of the directory:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ComputerAssociates\AccessControl\Pmd

The default value of _pmd_directory_ in the NTFS root directory is: ACInstallDir\data, where ACInstallDir is the directory where you installed CA Access Control (by default C:\Program Files\CA\AccessControl ).

Each PMDB occupies a subdirectory in the common directory. The files in the subdirectory contain all the data required to define the Policy Model. Policy Model configuration settings are stored in a Pmd subkey of the CA Access Control registry settings. The name of the subkey is the name of the Policy Model.