What does the "1 Parameter(s) loaded from Policy Store, 1 total." refer to?

Products

• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign-On

Issue/Introduction

When the Policy Server is starting up, in the SMPS log you may have seen these lines:

[3436/2600][Thu Mar 26 2015 15:33:26][XPSIO.cpp:492][CXPSIO::InitialLoad][INFO][sm-xpsxps-00300] 1 Parameter(s) loaded from Policy Store, 1 total.
[3436/2600][Thu Mar 26 2015 15:33:26][XPSIO.cpp:497][CXPSIO::InitialLoad][INFO][sm-xpsxps-00330] Caching Policy Data...
[3436/2600][Thu Mar 26 2015 15:33:29][XPSIO.cpp:516][CXPSIO::InitialLoad][INFO][sm-xpsxps-00310] 4539 object(s) loaded from the Policy Store.

What does the "1 Parameter(s) loaded from Policy Store, 1 total." refer to?

Environment

Any Policy Server Environment

Resolution

Normally you will only see 1 Parameter loaded. But you may also see 2, 3 or more parameters are loaded as well. These parameters are actually a count of the XPSConfig Global Parameters that the Policy Store is loading. Depending on what changes have been made in XPSConfig, the value will change. The count is specifically of Global Parameters, and not Local Parameters.