ControlPoint 8.8 - for Office 365 User Guide

Purging Historical Activity and Storage Data from the ControlPoint Services (xcAdmin) Database

The Purge Historical Data action lets you purge SharePoint activity and storage data—which is captured by the ControlPoint Discovery process and is used in analyzing historical data—from the ControlPoint Services (xcAdmin) database.

Data is purged from one farm per operation, and you can specify how many months' worth of data you want to retain.

IMPORTANT:  Once data is deleted from the xcAdmin database it cannot be recovered and will no longer be available for inclusion in future ControlPoint activity and storage analyses.  Therefore, it is recommended that you back up the database before performing this operation.

To purge activity and storage data:

1From the Manage ControlPoint panel, choose ControlPoint Management > Purge Historical Data.

2Select the Farm from which you want to purge  historical data.

3Enter the Number of Number of months to keep historical activity and storage data for.

CAUTION:  If you enter 0, all historical activity and storage data will be deleted from the database.

Now you can:

·run the action immediately (by clicking [Run Now]),

OR

·schedule the action to run at a later time

OR

create an xml file with instructions for the action that can be run at a later time (by clicking [Save Instructions]).  See "Saving, Modifying and Running XML Instructions for a ControlPoint Operation" in the ControlPoint User's Guide.

If you chose the Run Now, option, after the action has been processed:

·a confirmation message displays at the top of the page, and

·a ControlPoint Task Audit is generated for the action and displays in the Results section.

If you schedule the action, a link to the Task Audit is included in the scheduled action notification email.

See also "The ControlPoint Task Audit" in the ControlPoint User Guide.