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Services and Processes Overview

The Policy Server runs two services under Windows and two processes on UNIX. The Policy Server installation process starts the Policy Server and Monitor processes and configures executive applications to run the processes automatically at system startup in the future.

The main Policy Server processes for Windows are:

• Policy Server

  Serves Agent requests for authentication, authorization, accounting and logging, and (if enabled) administration.

• SiteMinder Health Monitor Service

  The OneView Monitor, which monitors the health and performance of the authentication server, authorization server, and Web Agent.

The main Policy Server processes for UNIX are:

• smpolicysrv

  Serves Agent requests for authentication, authorization, accounting and logging, and (if enabled) administration.

• smmon

  The OneView Monitor, which monitors the health and performance of the authentication server, authorization server, and Web Agent.