Storage
To enable you to efficiently manage your available disk space, and to prevent an overload of data on the AFA server, you can configure AFA to delete old reports, based on deletion criteria you define. You can configure clean-up to run automatically or trigger it manually, as needed.
Note: AFA checks the amount of local disk space remaining after running each report. If the remaining space is less than 10 GB, or if more than 95% of the disk is already used, AFA sends a warning e-mail to the users configured to receive error messages via e-mail notifications. See Configuring Event-Triggered Notifications (see Configure event-triggered notifications). In addition, AFA also sends notifications via the issues center and Syslog messages.
Note: AFA provides an option to only run a scheduled analysis if policy changes were detected since the previous analysis. This option ensures that full analyses will only run when the report will differ from the most recent report, saving both the CPU time needed to produce a report and the disk space needed to store it. To enable this option, select the Run analysis only when policy is changed check box, in the General sub-tab of the Options tab in the Administration area. For more details, see Define AFA preferences.
Note: You can optionally save reports on your remote backup server by including reports in your ASMS backups. See the Backup/Restore (see Backup/Restore) tab.
Configure report cleanup
Do the following:
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In the toolbar, click your username.
A drop-down menu appears.
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Select Administration.
The Administration page appears, displaying the Options tab.
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Click Storage.
The Storage tab appears.
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Complete the fields using the information in Storage Fields (see Storage Fields).
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Click OK.
If the number of days to retain reports is greater than the number of days to retain the monitoring information, a confirmation message appears.
Click OK.
The settings are changed.
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To delete any reports that meet the deletion criteria immediately, rather than wait until the next scheduled clean-up time, do the following:
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Click Clean-up now.
A success message appears.
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Click OK.
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Keep all reports from the last n days |
Select this option to enable automatic deletion of reports older than a specified number of days, then type the number of days after which reports should be deleted. |
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Do not keep older reports (Default) |
Click this option to specify that AFA should delete all reports that have reached the age specified in the Keep all reports from the lastndays field. |
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Leave one report per month for each device |
Click this option to specify that each month AFA automatically deletes all reports, except for the most recent successful report for each device, for audit purposes. |
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Leave one report per quarter for each device |
Click this option to specify that each quarter AFA automatically deletes all reports, except for the most recent successful report for each device, for audit purposes. |
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Keep reports of deleted devices |
Select this option to specify AFA retain a device's reports when the device is removed from AFA. |
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Run the clean-up job daily at |
Use the drop-down lists to specify the time at which AFA should perform automatic deletion each day. |
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Clean-up now |
Click this button to delete any reports that meet the deletion criteria immediately, rather than wait until the next scheduled clean-up time. Important: If you made changes to the deletion criteria that you want to apply to the clean-up, click OK to save the changes before clicking this button. |
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Retain per-device monitoring information for n days |
Type the number of days of change monitoring reports you want to retain for each device. |
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