Archive Policy configuration

From the Archive Policy page, you can define and edit the archive policy for each data set. Archive policies are used to specify which data sets you want to archive and how.

You can configure separate archive policies for the following Platform datasets:

o Alarms - includes all alarms in the Platform; Agent-generated and Platform-generated

o Events - includes all events in the Platform; Agent-generated and Platform-generated

o Cases - includes only closed cases in the server, including those created in the Platform and those created in other applications and registered with the Platform. (If the Platform is not licensed for Case Management, this value does not appear.)

This page shows the following information for the server's current audit policy:

o Day(s) Available Online - starts on the day the related dataset is created in the Platform. This represents the date range of data that will be available for viewing and searching online in the Axeda Applications.

o Range of Available Data - generated from the Platform; shows the number of days the dataset data is available online; the data for the earliest date will be moved offline first based on this policy.

o Data Retention Policy - the current policy for retaining datasets of this type online

Procedure from this page

You can create or modify the archive policy for the Platform. Remember that any change in the Archive policy is reflected after the Archive task runs (which is once a day).

Click the title of the procedure to display it; click the title again to hide the procedure:

To configure the archive policy

1. In the table, select the dataset for which you want to configure an archive policy.

2. (Skip this step for the Deployments dataset) In the Online box (above the table), type the number of days for which you want the data in this dataset available for access and use online in the Applications. For example, if you type "100" for a dataset of alarms, the alarms for that dataset will be available in the Applications for 100 days from when they were first created in the Platform, and after 100 days they will be moved to near-line status.

3. If you want to delete data from the Platform after a certain number of days, select the Delete data check box and type the number of days. For example, if you type "50" for a dataset of events, then 50 days after an event is first created in the Platform, the Platform deletes that dataset.

Note: The Data Retention Policy for the Deployments dataset is 30 days by default. All other datasets have ongoing data retention by default. When the Delete data checkbox is not selected for Deployments, then the “Day(s) Available Online” & “Range of Available Data” columns of the Archive Policy table will display “All Data".

Important! This action deletes all dataset data from the Platform. If there is data that you want to keep for a longer period of time than that specified in the data retention policy, make sure you use your own Platform tools to save or export that data.

4. Click Modify.

5. Repeat steps 1 through 4 for each dataset for which you want to configure the archive policy.

Archive Policy

Procedure from this page

To configure the archive policy

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