Archiving & purging audit events
To archive and purge audit events
1 Select Auditing & Alerting | Archiving and Purging.The top pane displays the defined audit event archiving and purging schedules.
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▪The bottom pane displays the maintenance tasks specific to the Purging and Archiving Events feature. See Managing tasks.
Archiving events on demand
Copies event entries and alert history items from the live audit database to the active archive database, and then deletes the event entries and alert history from the live audit database. To schedule the archive process, see Scheduling an event log purge and archive.
To archive events on demand
1 Select Auditing & Alerting | Archiving & Purging.
2 Click Archive Now.
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5 Click Archive Now.
Purging events on demand
Deletes event entries and alert history items permanently from the live audit database based on the selected purge options. To schedule the purge process, see Scheduling an event log purge and archive.
To purge events on demand
1 Select Auditing & Alerting | Archiving & Purging.
2 Click Purge Now.
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5 Click Purge Now.
Setting purge and archive options
To select specific events to purge or archive, click Purge Options or Archive Options. By default, the database shrinks after the database is purged or archived and the list of event definitions is not filtered. You can choose to include or exclude selected event definitions.
You can access the purge and archive options from the Purge Now, Archive Now, New, or Edit options on the tool bar.
To set options for the event purge archive process
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4 Filter box. Once you have selected events, you can choose to show All, Selected or Unselected. Active only if Include or Exclude the selected event definitions check boxes are selected.
IMPORTANT: Events selected in Purge Options are deleted first. If the same events are selected in Archive Options, those events are not archived because they were deleted in the purge.
Table 73. Event purge/archive options
By default, all events are purged or archived based on the selected date range.
6 Click OK.
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