Admin

Access the Policy Admin Page

About This Task

You can use the Policy Admin page to configure the retention settings for the execution history records of policies created using Policy Designer.
Important: You can access the Policy Admin page only if you are a member of the MI Policy Administrator security group.

Procedure

In the Applications menu, navigate to ADMIN > Application Settings > Policy Designer.
The Policy Admin page appears, displaying the Execution History Settings workspace.

Configure Execution History Retention Settings

About This Task

The Policy execution log can grow quickly and significantly impact the size of the APM database. You can control the size of the execution log by minimizing the time that the execution history is retained in the APM system and also by selecting an appropriate execution history setting for each policy.

By default, the Policy Execution History records are never deleted. This topic describes how to set a retention period and the time interval of an automated job that deletes these records after the retention period is over.

The following conditions apply when you set the retention period:
  • These settings are applicable to all types of Policies and Policy Execution History records: Errors, Warnings (Action Taken), Warnings (No Action Taken), Success (Action Taken), and Success (No Action Taken).
  • The most recent execution history of each instance associated with a Policy is retained even if it exceeds the specified retention duration.
  • Depending on the number of old Policy Execution History records that exist when the retention settings are configured, it may take multiple iterations of the automated job to delete all the old execution history records.

Procedure

  1. Access the Policy Admin page.
  2. For each execution result type for which you want to change the retention period, perform the following steps:
    1. In the Execution History Settings workspace, in the Retention Period section, select Duration.
      The Duration and Every fields appear.
    2. In the Duration box, enter the duration in months for which you want to retain the records.
  3. In the Every box, enter the time interval at which the automated job must run to delete old Policy Execution History records.
    By default, the time interval that you enter is defined in hours. However, you can select the required unit from the drop-down list box to specify the interval in other units of time.
  4. Select Save.
    The execution history settings are configured.