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Flush Resource Caches

SiteMinder Web Agents stores information about specific resources that users access in a resource cache. The resource cache records the following:

• Record of the Resources that have been accessed by users
• Whether or not the resources are protected by SiteMinder
• If a resource is protected, how the resource is protected

If you change rules or realms, you may want the changes to take effect immediately. If so, you must flush the resource cache.

Note: For detailed information about flushing resource caches for a realm or for a specific policy, see the Policy Server Configuration Guide.

To flush resource caches

1. Log into the Administrative UI.
2. Click Administration, Policy Server, Cache Management.
3. In the Resource Caches group box, click Flush.

   This flushes all resource caches and forces Web Agents to authorize requests against the Policy Server. This process will take up to twice the time specified by your policy server poll interval while the Policy Server synchronizes caches.

   Note: For an administrator with the Manage Domain Objects privilege for specific policy domains, flushing all resource caches only flushes the caches for the realms within the administrator's policy domains.

4. Click Submit.

   The resource cache are cleared.