CA (PIM - Privileged Identity Management) Tuesday Tip by Reatesh Sanghi, Principal Support Engineer for June 9, 2015.
To make sure that the policyfetcher service restarts always after this is killed from the task manager, check for the following Registry Key value. The values provided in here can be modified for troubleshooting purposes.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\AccessControl\Applications\Policyfetcher\RestartApplication the value for this has to be 1.
OperationMode
Specifies whether the application is active (1).
Default: 1
RestartApplication
Specifies whether the application will be restarted (1) if it has been closed or terminated.
Default: 1
StartAplication
Specifies whether CA ControlMinder be starts the application (1) when the Watchdog wakes up.
Default: 1