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Endpoint Administration Guide for UNIX › Managing Policy Models › Automatic Rule-based Policy Updates › How You Use a PMDB to Propagate Configuration Settings › How New Subscribers Are Configured

How New Subscribers Are Configured

The Policy Model configures each new subscriber with the existing configuration values. The existing configuration values are stored in the virtual configuration file.

Note: The virtual configuration file does not store configuration values from the audit.cfg file. Any changes you make to the audit.cfg file prior to creating a new subscriber are not propagated to the new subscriber.

The following process describes how a Policy Model configures new subscribers:

  1. You create a new subscriber to the Policy Model.
  2. The Policy Model reads the values in its virtual configuration file.
  3. The Policy Model adds the configuration values from its virtual configuration file to the updates.dat file. The updates.dat file also contains the access rules for the Policy.
  4. The Policy Model sends the updates.dat file to the new subscriber.
  5. selang commands configure the new subscriber with the values in the updates.dat file.