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Auto deletion takes the retention period as the parameter to control which audits can be deleted. An internal timer job will be triggered every hour to delete all the audits outside the retention period as shown in the following figure:
Deletion will only happen when the following two conditions are met at the same time:
To enable the auto deletion, use the following CLI:
Deccan-1# isi audit settings global modify --auto-purging-enabled=yes
You are enabling the automatic log purging.
Automatic log purging will run in background to delete audit log files.
Please check the retention period before enabling automatic log purging.
Are you sure you want to do this?? (yes/[no]): yes
To set the retention period, use the following CLI:
Deccan-1# isi audit settings global modify --retention-period=250
To view the configurations, use the following CLI:
Deccan-1# isi audit settings global view
Protocol Auditing Enabled: Yes
Audited Zones: System, testZone
CEE Server URIs: -
Hostname:
Config Auditing Enabled: Yes
Config Syslog Enabled: No
Config Syslog Servers: -
Protocol Syslog Servers: -
Auto Purging Enabled: Yes
Retention Period: 250