Not All PMDBs Start During Seload

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

Though multiple PMDBs are running on the same endpoint, only one or two are starting up during seload.

Cause

When seosd is starting up, it will start up seagent and seagent will execute sepmdpull, which uses the token parent_pmd in seos.ini to know what PMDBs to start. If only one or two PMDBs are that endpoint's parent, then only those will be started during seload. If those PMDBs have parent_pmd set in pmd.ini, then those PMDBs will start as well.

Resolution

To have another PMDB start when seload is called, add a line to the [daemons] section of seos.ini to start it. If there are muliple PMDBs to start, then add one line for each PMDB.

For PIM:
sepmd = /opt/CA/AccessControl/bin/sepmd -S SecondPMDB
sepmd = /opt/CA/AccessControl/bin/sepmd -S ThirdPMDB

For PAMSC:
sepmd = /opt/CA/PAMSC/bin/sepmd -S SecondPMDB
sepmd = /opt/CA/PAMSC/bin/sepmd -S ThirdPMDB