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Change Auditor 7.3 - User Guide

Change Auditor Overview Agent Deployment Change Auditor Client Overview Overview Page Searches Search Results and Event Details Custom Searches and Search Properties Enable Alert Notifications Administration Tasks Agent Configurations Coordinator Configuration Purging and Archiving your Change Auditor Database Disable Private Alerts and Reports Generate and Schedule Reports SQL Reporting Services Configuration Change Auditor User Interface Authorization Client Authentication Certificate authentication for client coordinator communication Integrating with On Demand Audit Enable/Disable Event Auditing Account Exclusion Registry Auditing Service Auditing Agent Statistics and Logs Coordinator Statistics and Logs Change Auditor Commands Change Auditor Email Tags

Introduction

Change Auditor provides several options to schedule both the purging of events from your database and archiving older data to an archive database. Automating database cleanup allows you to keep critical and relevant data online and current while eliminating or archiving events that are no longer required. This not only prevents your database from growing in size, but it increases overall operational efficiency by speeding up searches and data retrieval from the database.

Using the purge options, you can define and schedule jobs that will eliminate events from the database based on the following criteria:

Using the archive options, you can select to create a yearly archive database for older events that are no longer required to be represented in your reports.

 

This deletes events from the production database. You can create and run multiple purge jobs.

When scheduling a purge job, you can choose a batch limit. This limit tells the job how many events to delete from the production database before pausing and running another job. Choosing too large of a batch limit may slow your purge jobs down. If you find that they are slow reduce the batch limit.

Archive

This moves events from the production database to an archive database (on the same database server). The archive process removes the events from the production database during the move. Archive events do not need to be purged separately. You can only create and run one “archive” job or one “purge and archive” job.

When scheduling an archive job for the first time it may take a long time to complete (depending on how many years of data you are asking to be archived). Batch limit does not apply to an archive type job.

When running an archive job, you need to pay attention to disk space growth on the SQL server.

Purge and archive

This deletes events (purge job) from the production database, then immediately performs an archive job to move the remaining records in the time period specified for the job from the production database to an archive database. You can only create and run one “purge and archive” job or one “archive” job.

If you select a batch limit, it will only apply to the purging portion of the job. When the batch limit is reached, the job will immediately run again ensuring this job type runs to completion before the archive job begins.

Planning your jobs

Planning your jobs before scheduling them will help ensure they run as expected. Keep in mind, all jobs can take a significant time to run depending on the amount of data in your environment.

When scheduling your jobs, consider the following:

When multiple jobs types are scheduled to run close together the following behavior will occur:

During a purge and/or archive job, consider the following:

After the purge and/or archive job completes, consider the following:

Purge and Archive page

The Purge and Archive page is displayed when Purge and Archive is selected from the Configuration task list in the navigation pane of the Administration Tasks page. From here you can specify the settings for the purge and archive jobs.

Before creating your jobs, ensure that you have reviewed Planning your jobs.

Once a job is defined, the page displays the following details:

Job Name

Displays the name assigned to the job when it was created using the Purge and Archive wizard.

Last Run

Displays the date and time the job last ran.

Next Run

Displays the date and time the job is scheduled to run next.

Status

Indicates whether the job is enabled or disabled.

Schedule

Displays the schedule defined for running the job.

You will also see information regarding the status of reach job including:

Immediately continuing job: Displays when the purge portion of a ‘purge and archive’ job continues.
Archive database not found. Recreating archive database: Displays if an archive database has been moved or deleted.
Starting job: Displays when the purge, archive, or purge and archive job is beginning.
Successfully finished job: Displays when the purge and archive, purge, or archive job is finished.
New archive database created: Displays when the new archive database has been created for the calendar year.
Events archived: Displays the progression of the number of events being archived.
Total events archived: Displays the total number of archived events when archiving is finished.
Continue purge job: Displays when re-queued purge jobs run again.

Create and maintain jobs

In addition to viewing the details about previously defined jobs, use the Purge and Archive page to define and schedule new jobs, and edit, disable/enable or delete existing jobs.

Before scheduling a job, ensure that you have reviewed the best practice information in Planning your jobs.

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Open the Administration Tasks tab and select Configuration | Purge and Archive.
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Click Add to open the Purge and Archive wizard.
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If required, select Purge and choose the records to be deleted from the production database.
All events: Select this option to purge all events from the database that are older than the specified time.
Only selected events: Select this option to purge only selected events, based on specific criteria, from the database that are older than the specified time.
See Purge selected records for a description of the criteria options.
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Select Archive events if you want to create an archive database. A yearly archive database will be created beginning on the first day of the selected month. For example, if you select Jan, the database will contain events for 12 months beginning on January 1.
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Click Next.
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Click Finish to save the job and exit the wizard.
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Click Edit to open the Purge and Archive wizard.
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Click Finish to save your selections and exit the wizard.
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