Endpoint Administration Guide for UNIX › Managing Policy Models › Automatic Rule-based Policy Updates › How You Can Set Up a Hierarchy

How You Can Set Up a Hierarchy

CA Access Control uses the Policy Model service to propagate rule-based policy updates across the configured hierarchy. By subscribing several CA Access Control computers to the same PMDB, and by subscribing one PMDB to another, you create a hierarchy.

To enable automatic rule-based policy updates, do the following:

1. Create and configure the master PMDB.
2. (Optional) Create and configure subscriber PMDBs.
3. Define parent PMDBs for the subscribing computers, called endpoints.

Note: The following sections show how you set up a PMDB hierarchy. There are other ways of creating PMDBs and then setting their hierarchy. For a comprehensive discussion of the Policy Model utilities, see the Reference Guide.