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 family policies.
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

You can configure the execution history retention settings to specify the time for which execution history records for family policies must be retained in the APM database. You can configure the settings to retain the execution history records for executions that result in Errors, Warnings (Action Taken), Warning (No Action Taken), Success (Action Taken), or Success (No Action Taken), either for an indefinite period or for a specific duration. By default, the execution history records are configured to be retained for an indefinite period. If you configure the settings to retain these records for a specific duration, an automated job deletes the records that have been retained in the database for more than the specified duration. You can specify the interval at which the job must run.

Note:
  • 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 execution history is retained in the APM system.
  • The execution history retention settings are not specific to a family policy and are applicable for all family policies. The settings are also applicable to any execution history records for the Policy Designer.
  • If a family policy has been executed only once, the execution history is retained in the database even if it exceeds the specified retention duration.
  • Depending on the number of old execution history records that exists when the retention settings are configured, it may take multiple runs of the automated job to delete all the old execution history records.

This topic describes how to configure the settings to retain the execution history records for policies for a specific duration in the database depending on the execution result.

Procedure

  1. Access the Policy Admin page.
  2. For each execution result type which you do not want to retain execution history records indefinitely, 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 execution history logs in the database.
  3. In the Schedule for background cleanup job box, enter the following detail:
    • REPEAT INTERVAL: The repeat interval at which the automated job must run to delete old Policy Execution History records.
    • NEXT OCCURRENCE: The next occurrence date for the selected Repeat Interval.
    • START DATE: The start date to enable the job.
    • END REPEAT: The end date for the job.
    • TIMEZONE: The timezone that will be considered for running the job.
    By default, the time interval that you enter is defined in hours. However, you can select the required unit from the radio button to specify the interval in other units of time in REPEAT INTERVAL.
  4. Select Save.
    The execution history settings are configured.