Default Log Retention

[RSAAdmin]

Hello, Can someone be so kind as to tell me what is the default log retention on envision? I have inherited this from a person who is no longer working with me and I think I need to adjust the retention to be longer. I know I can delete older than n with lsmaint but is there a place to see and set the default and current retention policy? Thank you. dbrajtman

[ScottPause]

There is no data retention policy concept inside the application.  You need to run the relevant commands to purge data.  Such as a scheduled task, or envision scheduled job. 

[RSAAdmin]

Thank you for the very quick reply. Much appreciated. I assumed that if I didn't create a task to delete logs they would be kept indefinately (perhaps overwritten as needed) but I cannot see any files or folder older than about 10 months. Does this mean that someone had set a task? Is there a way to view this if it does not appear in the sceduled tasks GUI? Also, If I would now want to set a system wide policy to keep data for 2 years, would that be done through the scheduled tasks? Thanks again.

[ScottPause]

You should take a look at the raw log data.  If you have an ES, its in the E:\nic\lsnode\data folder.  On an LS stack, it on the NAS, in a similar path (on each CIFS volume).

Since the data is stored with the date in the folder, you can find the oldest data present. (try searching for files named 2010)  That doesn't mean it is indexed (which is a separate task to re-index).

Assuming everything has been working fine, I'm guesing there is only 10 months of data, and some task was purging data.  Otherwise, it could be a data corruption/loss issue.

Regarding tasks, check the Windows scheduled tasks (on each envision server), AND the enVision Scheduler Service tasks (again on each envision server).  Either is where you would run the necessary command(s) for data purge.

[RSAAdmin]

Thank you for the explanation sir, I will give it a try.