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PluginManagement

CA Access Control maintains dynamic plug-in load and unload settings it uses under the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\AccessControl\
Instrumentation\PluginManagement

The Instrumentation\PluginManagement registry key contains the following registry entries:

Active

Specifies whether plug-ins dynamic loading is active (1).

Type: REG_DWORD.

Default: 1

Altitude

Defines the order of dynamic management stubs in the chain.

Type: REG-DWORD

Default: 0x0fffffff (reserved value)

ApplyOnDLL

Read only value.

Default: Kernel32.dll

ApplyOnProcess

Defines the list of processes to which dynamic loading applies.

You can define the name of the service or the full pathname. Names are not case sensitive. For example, "services.exe", "\system32\services.exe", "c:\windows\system32\services.exe".

Type: REG_MULTI_SZ

By default, this token is not set (dynamic loading applies to any plug-in).

ExcludeProcess

Defines the list of processes to which dynamic loading does not apply.

Note: This entry is valid only if ApplyOnProcess is not set.

Type: REG_MULTI_SZ

By default, this token is not set.

LoadLibraryA

For internal use only.

Default: 0

LoadLibraryExA

For internal use only.

Default: 0

LoadLibraryExW

For internal use only.

Default: 1

LoadLibraryW

For internal use only

Default: 0

OperationMode

For internal use only.

Default: 1

ProcessCommanArguments

Specifies whether the instrumentation module notifies the CA Access Control security service on process creation event.

Type: REG_DWORD

Values:

0—Instrumentation module does not notify CA Access Control security service on process creation.

1—Instrumentation module notifies CA Access Control security service on process creation.

Note: The registry key value is automatically changed by the CA Access Control security service depending on configuration settings and database definitions. Do not alter the registry key value manually.

PluginName

Read only value.

Default: ACInstallDir\bin\cainstrm.dll