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Data Protection Advisor enables different retention periods for data collected by agents for any discovered data protection element. The default values assigned to each data metric being collected can be adjusted under the Data Collection menu option; select Defaults to view all data collection defaults.
In Figure 6, the default settings for the NetWorker client status are shown where data gathered will be retained for 13 weeks. Depending on stakeholder requirements, this default value can be adjusted to match the desired reporting requirements. Any data collected older than the specified retention period will be aged out of the Data Protection Advisor datastore.
This is an example of NetWorker client status collection configuration is defined and easily adjusted to align with the risk/security team’s requirements.
It is worth ensuring data being collected is retained for the desired period. Adjusting this in the data collection defaults section will ensure consistency of data captured by Data Protection Advisor.