Implementation Guide › Optimizing CA Identity Manager › Role Optimizations › Authorization Cache › Set the Authorization Cache Size

Set the Authorization Cache Size

The cache size dictates the amount of memory that is used for a role. To set the authorization cache size for roles, use a new settings file authcache.properties. The authcache.properties file is available in the following location:

iam_ear/config/com/netegrity/config  

The following settings exist in the authcache.properties file:

• AdminRoleCacheSize
• AccessRoleCacheSize
• ProvisioningRoleCacheSize
• DefaultAuthCacheSize

The AdminRoleCacheSize, AccessRoleCacheSize, and ProvisioningRoleCacheSize setting contain the maximum size limit of the authorization cache for each role of the respective role types. You can set this limit value as required.

Limits:

Minimum Value: 1

Maximum Value: Depends on the heap space.

Note: Setting the cache to a Maximum value may result in Java heap overflow and out of memory overflow.

The DefaultAuthCacheSize specifies the default cache size when the cache size of any role is set to 0.