It's interesting to note that while all policies are managed centrally, they are enforced by the locally installed adapter. There is no central authorization service, as was common in the other products. Thus, changes in policy take effect only when the adapter refreshes its policy cache at an interval that administrators specify. We also could force an immediate update of all the policy caches by selecting "send update" from the management console.
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Jeffrey H. Rubin is a senior instructor with the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and president of Internet Consulting Services.
Ravind Budhiraja is a Web administrator for the College of Law at Syracuse University and a consultant with Internet Consulting Services. Send your comments on this article to [email protected].
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