CA PAMSC: About the limitation of SPECIALPGM

Products

• CA Privileged Access Manager - Server Control (PAMSC)
• CA Privileged Identity Management Endpoint (PIM)

Issue/Introduction

Here is the limitation on entry rule numbers in SPECIALPGM class in the Manual page.

SPECIALPGM Class

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Note: The maximum number of rules that you can place in the specialpgm class table is 512.
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Environment

Privileged Identity Manager: 12.8 SP1 for All platform

Privileged Access Manager Server Control: 14.0, 14.1 for All platform

Resolution

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Maximun limit is defined in each platform.

• Windows : The maximum number of rules that you can place in the specialpgm class table is 16384.
• UNIX/LINUX : The maximum number of rules that you can place in the specialpgm class table is 1024.

Additional Information

SPECIALPGM class can be registered with wildcard.
The wildcard rule is only 1 count at the rule although wildcard points to some binary files. It can help to reduce the rule.

But Wildcard rule may affect system performance.
So, please set a wildcard rule delicately.