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Manage Cache Updates

You can suspend and resume cache flush updates to help resolve policy evaluation issues. You manage cache updates using the Administrative UI or the smpolicysrv command.

If you change the cache update status, the central administration Policy Server issues the command to all secondary Policy Servers.

Note: Policy Server commands are processed according to a thread management model. As a result, changes to the cache status are not visible in the smps.log file immediately.

Manage Cache Updates Using the Administrative UI

View the status of and enable or disable Policy Server cache flush updates using the Administrative UI.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Administrative UI.
2. Click Administration, Policy Server, Cache Management.
3. View the cache status in the Cache Updates section:

   Cache updates are disabled: Cache flushing is disabled.

   Cache updates are enabled: Cache flushing is enabled.

4. (Optional) Click the Enable/Disable button to switch cache updates.

Manage Cache Updates Using the smpolicysrv Command

View the status of and enable or disable Policy Server cache flush updates using the smpolicysrv command.

Follow these steps:

1. Open a command prompt.

   Consider the following points on Windows systems:

   • Do not run the smpolicysrv command from a remote desktop or Terminal Services window. The command depends on interprocess communications. If you run the smpolicysrv process from a remote desktop or Terminal Services window, these communications do not work.
   • Be sure to open the command line window with administrator permissions. Use these permissions even if you are logged in to the system as an administrator. For more information, see the release notes for your CA SiteMinder® component.
2. Enter one of the following commands:

   smpolicysrv -disablecacheupdates

   Disables cache flushing.

   smpolicysrv -enablecacheupdates

   Enables cache flushing.

   smpolicysrv -statuscacheupdates

   Reports the refresh status of Policy Server caches to the log file: smps.log.

   Disabled: Cache flushing is disabled.

   Enabled: Cache flushing is enabled.