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Class Activation

The information about class status (that is, whether the class was active An active class is one for which CA Access Control checks authorization whenever there is an access attempt on a resource in that class. If the class is inactive, access is permitted without any CA Access Control checks. You can manually set the state of a resource class to be active or inactive. or inactive) is held in the database. Every attempt to access a resource is intercepted by CA Access Control, which checks the status in the database. If the class is inactive, access is allowed without further checking for authorization.

CA Access Control issues a list of active classes when the engine starts and when a user changes the class activity status. If a class is inactive, access to the resource is not intercepted, which reduces overhead.