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Specify Search Limits

Setting search limits can improve performance by preventing large scale searches, which can tie up system resources.

Search limits can be set in three places:

• In the object properties file, global.properties
• The user directory properties in the SiteMinder Policy Server User Interface
• The LDAP directory

When Registration Services performs a search, it first checks to see if a search limit is set in the global.properties file. If no limit is set, Registration Services then checks to see if limits are set in the user directory properties in SiteMinder. If there are no specified values in the Policy Server, the LDAP directory’s settings (if any) apply.

For information on setting search limits in SiteMinder, see User Directories. For information on setting search limits in the LDAP directory, see the documentation for your directory server.

In global.properties, you can set two limits:

SEARCH_TIMEOUT

Ends the search after a specified amount of time. This value is specified in seconds.

SEARCH_LIMIT

Ends the search after a specified number of entries have been searched.