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Comparing PMDB to Local Database

CA Identity Manager manages CA Access Control identities in an identity store that can be either a CA Access Control PMDB or a local database. Since CA Identity Manager and CA Access Control both manage users and passwords, it is an architecture decision as to which users are managed by CA Identity Manager and which by CA Access Control. A general guideline is that CA Identity Manager manages a PMDB and the PMDB handles the propagation of all its subscribers.