About the purge settings

When objects in the Directory are deleted, the corresponding information and results are stored in the database. The database must be purged regularly to maintain optimum performance. As the database grows, the results are longer queries, corrupt databases, and depleted disk space.

Control Compliance Suite (CCS) includes a default global purge setting. Some modules have their own purge settings. You can schedule the purge job to run periodically.

You can configure the purge settings from the System > General > Purge panel.

The following are the different purge settings tabs in the Purge panel:

Stale Data

Settings for the global purge.

The number of days after which data is purged. The default value is 180 days.

System Audit Log

Settings for purging the historical audit log data.

The audit log historical data older than the number of days that is specified in the System Audit log tab is deleted. The default value is 365 days.

See About auditing.

Exceptions

Settings for purging the exceptions data.

The exceptions data older than the number of days that is specified in the Exceptions tab is deleted. The default value is 180 days.

Entitlements

Settings for purging the historical entitlements data.

The entitlements historical data older than the number of days that is specified in the Entitlements tab is deleted. The default value is 180 days.

The minimum value is 100 days and the maximum value is 9999 days.

Baselines

Settings for purging the comparison results.

The comparison results older than the number of days that is specified in the Baselines tab is deleted. The default is 60 days.

Reports

Settings for purging the report results in the reporting database.

The report results older than the number that is specified in the Reports tab are deleted. Report results are also deleted for runs greater than the number that is specified in the Reports tab.

Standards

Settings for purging the standards data.

The standards data older than the number that is specified in the Stale Data tab are deleted.

Data can also be deleted if it is younger than the number that is specified . The data collection results and the data evaluation results for runs greater than the number that is specified in the Standards tab are deleted.

Note:

A purge of evaluations results does not re-compute summary statistics until another evaluation is executed.

See Configuring the purge settings.

See Configuring the purge job schedule.