BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

Purging obsolete data

By default, Meridian Enterprise Server retains all data that it collects.

This data includes:

• Temporary user data such as notifications, system generated spreadsheets, and so on.
• Audit log entries
• Publisher job history
• Scheduled task history

You can purge some or all of this data when it becomes obsolete. The data can be purged immediately or on a schedule that you configure.

To specify the data that you want to purge:

1. In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the System Management group, click Settings. The Application Settings page appears.
2. On the APPLICATION SETTINGS page, in the MANAGEMENT TOOLS group, for the Clear system data item, click MANAGE. The CLEAR SYSTEM DATA dialog box appears.
3. In the menu, click each of the items that correspond to the data that you want to purge and then select an option from the Clear system data list that specifies when you want to purge the data.
   1. If you select Older than, type the number of days of data that you want to keep in Days.
4. Click SAVE. Your settings are saved and will be applied the next time that a task runs to clear data.

To purge the specified data immediately:

• For the Clear system data item, click RUN. The operation is added as a background task and you can continue to work.

To purge the specified data on a schedule:

1. For the Clear system data item, click SCHEDULE. The SCHEDULE dialog box appears. This dialog box requires the same input as the Windows Task Scheduler.
2. Configure the scheduled task to run when you require and then click SCHEDULE.The task is modified and will run on the configured schedule.