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Delete Old Data in the File System Database

You can configure how often vCenter Operations Manager removes old data from the file system database

(FSDB) by modifying properties in the advanced.properties file.

IMPORTANT Always make a backup copy of the advanced.properties file. Changes you make to the file might

cause errors that can adversely affect vCenter Operations Manager operations.

Prerequisites

Become familiar with how to start and stop the Analytics service. See “Start or StopvCenter Operations

Manager Services,” on page 102.

Procedure

1 Make a backup copy of the advanced.properties file in the vcenter_ops\user\conf\analytics directory

on the vCenter Operations Manager server.

2 Open the original advanced.properties file.

3 Change the oldDataCleanerExecutionFrequency property to how often, in days, to erase old data.

For example, to erase old data once a week, set oldDataCleanerExecutionFrequency to 7. A value of 0 causes

old data not to be erased.

4 Change the oldDataCleanerDateRange property to how old, in days, data must be before it is erased.

For example, to erase data that is 900 or more days old, set oldDataCleanerDateRange to 900.

5 Save your changes and close the advanced.properties file.

6 Restart the Analytics service.

vCenter Operations Manager deletes old data for the first time when the frequency that you specified elapses.

For example, if you set the frequency to 7, the first data purge occurs one week later.

Run the Audit Report

The Audit report shows the number of resources configured, resources that are having data collected, resource

kinds, resources for each defined adapter, metrics configured and being collected, super metrics, metrics

generated by vCenter Operations Manager, and applications.

You can also run a report to view information about users, groups, and access rights. See “Run the User Audit