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How Agent Caches Work

The SOA Security Manager Agent searches the following caches for the information it needs before contacting the SOA Security Manager Policy Server:

Because retrieving information from a cache is quicker than contacting the Policy Server, performance improves. The following illustration describes this process:

Diagram illustrating the sequence in which Agent caches are used