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Prerequisites
Become familiar with how to start and stop the Analytics service. See “Start or StopvCenter Operations
Manager Services,” on page 91.
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 and find the following lines.
#Old Data Cleaner Execution frequency. Default is 0(Off) days
oldDataCleanerExecutionFrequency=0
#old date range. Default is 900 days
oldDataCleanerDateRange=900
Lines that start with # are comments.
3 Change oldDataCleanerExecutionFrequency to how often, in days, to erase old data.
For example, set oldDataCleanerExecutionFrequency to 7 to erase old data once a week. A value of 0, the
default, causes old data not to be erased.
4 Change oldDataCleanerDateRange to how often old data must be before it is erased.
The default setting erases data that is 900 or more days old.
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 you entered 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
Report,” on page 70.
Procedure
1 Select Admin > Audit Report.
2 Select the report type format.
3 Click Submit.
The Audit Report window appears.
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