Set the notification delay time

When the policy server is instructed to change the master authorization database, it waits for a default period before sending out notifications to database replicas.

The default time delay is set at 15 seconds. This time delay is reset with each subsequent change to the database.

The purpose of the time delay is to prevent the policy server from sending individual replica notifications for each change in a series of database changes. The time delay helps to ensure optimal performance of the ISAM system.

This performance feature is important for environments where batch changes are made to the authorization database. It is not efficient for policy changes to be sent to database replicas until all changes are made. We can override this default notification time delay by changing the notifier-wait-time entry value in the [ivmgrd] stanza of the ivmgrd.conf configuration file. For example:

[ivmgrd]
notifier-wait-time = 20

By default, the value is set to 15 seconds.

When the auto-database-update-notify entry is set to yes, configure this entry and the max-notifier-threads entry. See also Set the number of update-notifier threads.

Parent topic: Policy server administration tasks