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Configure Windows Executives

For Windows, each Policy Server process is monitored by a separate executive. Each of these executives reads the following threshold values from the Policy_Server_installation_ path\config\siteminder.conf configuration file:

• SMEXEC_UPTIME_THRESHOLD

  Indicates the minimum amount of time (in seconds) a Policy Server service must run after startup before the associated executive stops monitoring for frequent crashes. The default value for this parameter is 60 seconds.

• SMEXEC_RESTART_THRESHOLD

  Indicates the maximum number of times the executive attempts to restart a service in the time specified by the SMEXEC_UPTIME_THRESHOLD parameter. If a service crashes more than the number of attempts specified by this parameter, the executive stops attempting to restart the service. The default value for this parameter is five attempts.

To change the threshold parameters, edit the siteminder.conf file and restart the Policy Server processes.