Sun Identity Manager 8.1 Installation

redo Logs

Point-in-time recovery methods require the existence of an unbroken set of change records (typically referred to as “redo logs”). This can often present logistical challenges if the rate of change is high, generating a large volume of redo.

Identity Manager tries to minimize the need to write to the redo logs. However, database activity cannot be completely eliminated. Even when Identity Manager appears to be idle, each server polls the repository in order to detect changes to repository objects, tasks ready to run, tasks ready to clean up, and so forth.

The intervals on which these activities occur are configurable, and increasing these configured intervals will reduce the frequency of (but will not eliminate) database operations that Identity Manager executes against the repository when idle. To configure these intervals, define new values for the cache.pollingInterval and other properties that begin with cache and ChangeNotifier in the Waveset.properties file.

In addition, disable the listcache.size property on any application server in a cluster that does not serve the Identity Manager Graphic User Interface. Disabling this property reduces number of operations that Identity Manager executes against the repository when the application is idle.