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Creating a Task to Delete Events Older than Thirty Days

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»Introduction
»Product Overview
»Getting Started
»Discovery and Identification
»Users and Authorizations
»Networking and Security
»Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events
»Storage Integration
»Managing with Tasks
»Tools that Extend Management
»Partner Applications
»Reporting
»Administering Systems and Events
»Events
»Examples of Event Tasks
»Creating a Paging Task Based on E-mail Notification
»Creating a Task to Delete All Cleared Events
Creating a Task to Delete Events Older than Thirty Days
»Creating a Task to Send an E-mail When a System Reaches a Critical State
»Status Polling
»WMI Mapper Proxy
»Protocols
»Data Collection
»System Properties
»Version Control Repository
»PMP Administrative Options
»Setting Up Managed Systems
»Managing SSH Keys
»Backing Up and Restoring the Database
»Configuring SSH Bypass Properties
»Audit Log
»Troubleshooting
»Reference Information
»Printable version
»Glossary
»Using Help
» Creating the Collection
» Scheduling the Task
» Related Procedures
» Related Topic

Use this task to delete events based on a set of criteria. For example, you might create a task called Delete Informational Events, that deletes all informational events that are more than six weeks old.

You must have full-configuration-rights to delete security events.

Creating the Collection

  1. Select Search panel, click Advanced Search. The Advanced Search page is displayed.

  2. Select events from the Search for dropdown list.

  3. From the first selection box (criteria selection), click the down arrow, and select severity.

  4. From the second selection box (comparison selection), click the down arrow, and select is.

  5. In the third selection box (value selection), the available values for a given criteria or comparison combination are given. Select Informational.

  6. In the third selection box (value selection), the available values for a given criteria or comparison combination are given. Select Normal.

  7. Click [Add] to select Normal severity.

  8. From the first selection box (criteria selection), click the down arrow, and select severity.

  9. From the second selection box (comparison selection), click the down arrow, and select is.

  10. In the third selection box (value selection), the available values for a given criteria or comparison combination are given. Select Normal.

  11. Click [Add] to select Normal severity.

  12. From the first selection box (criteria selection), click the down arrow, and select event time.

  13. From the second selection box (comparison selection), click the down arrow, and select older than and select 30 days.

  14. (Optional) Click [View] to view the search results.

  15. Click [Save As] to save the event collection.

  16. In the Name field, enter a name for the collection, such as Delete Insignificant Events.

  17. Under Place in Folder, select to save the collection in Events by Severity to have it available to other users.

  18. Click [OK] to save the collection, or click [Cancel] to cancel the save operation.

Scheduling the Task

  1. Select OptionsEventsDelete Events. The Delete Events page appears.

  2. Select the Delete Insignificant Events collection. Check the Select "Delete Informational Events" itself checkbox.

  3. Click [Apply].

  4. Click [Schedule].

  5. In the Task name box, give the task a name, such as Delete Informational Events.

  6. In the Refine schedule section, select Every 1 week(s) on Saturday at 12:00 AM, or select the day and time that you want the task to run.

  7. Click [Done]. The task is now scheduled and the All Scheduled Tasks page appears.

    To run this task at any time, select Tasks & LogsView Task Results. Then select Delete Informational Events from the table and click [Run Now]. Refer to Scheduling a Task - Running a Scheduled Task for more information.

Related Procedures

» Searching for Systems and Events - Performing an Advanced Search for Events
» Managing with Tasks - Creating a Task
» Managing with Tasks - Scheduling a Task
» Events - Deleting Events
» Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events - Saving Collections
» Scheduling a Task - Running a Scheduled Task

Related Topic

» System Table View Page - Navigating the Tree View