Endpoint Administration Guide for Windows › Managing Policy Models › Automatic Rule-based Policy Updates › Update Subscribers

Update Subscribers

When updating subscribers, the Policy Model performs the following actions:

1. The Policy Model tries to fully qualify subscriber names as they are added or deleted from the Policy Model.
2. The PMDB service, sepmdd, attempts to update a subscriber database.
3. If the maximum time elapses and the service does not succeed in updating a subscriber, it skips that particular subscriber and tries to update the rest of the subscribers on its list.
4. After it completes its first scan of the subscriber list, sepmdd then performs a second scan, in which it tries to update the subscribers that it did not succeed in updating during its first scan.

Note: Whenever a PMDB encounters an error while propagating updates to subscribers, the sepmdd service creates an entry in the Policy Model error log file. This file, ERROR_LOG, is located in the PMDB directory (PMDB Location on Disk, PMDB Location on Disk).