AVP 1.6 (Automated Volume Purge)

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In Brief

Establish or maintain a preventative maintenance routine for your Novell servers (Volumes).

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Posted:	28 Oct 2003
File Size:	2.53MB
License:	Evaluation
Download:	http://www.innovativesoftsystems.com/avp.php
Home Page:	http://www.innovativesoftsystems.com
Publisher:	Innovative SoftSystems

Disclaimer

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Details

New version: 1.66.0.927

What will you find in 1.6?

Features:

1. Select multiple volumes/servers for maintenance.
2. Schedule purge to run off-hours (and you don't have to be there!!!)
3. Set options to only delete files older then the number of days you specify.
4. Can be loaded with Windows.
5. Detailed logs - volume summary, detailed volume reporting, or per file logging.
6. Ability to log files with standard media extensions. (See who's using up the disk space with mp3's, etc. and deleting them when you send out a system warning.)
7. Ability to log files with extensions of your choosing. Looking for specific files being deleted? Just add the extension to the list and we'll log it!
8. Minimum purgable space before purge will run. This way we don't run a purge for 500k or whatever you determine.
9. Have the logs e-mailed to you... anywhere.

Benefits:

1. Reduces administration time & costs.
2. Keeps volumes healthy, reclaims Blocks & Directory entries for salvage system.
3. Runs on a workstation, reduced risk of ABENDing your server.

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Reader Comments

• If you do not wish to pay extra for functionality that should be a part of your operating system then use free TOOLBOX.NLM and its PURGE built-in command instead (it can purge files older than specified number of days as well). To load TOOLBOX and run PURGE command use CRON.NLM.
• In response to the Toolbox comment - It has a 15 Directory/sub-directory depth maximum... Doesn't really help most of us out...
• Why pay for something you can do for free, just use toolbox.nlm & cron, or use something like SelPurge from Wolfgang Schreiber (his stuff is pretty good!) http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/14093.html
• It abended my server also.... no value here
• The maximum depth of 15 directories can be resolved with a newer TOOLBOX.NLM.
• Have you seen the options this util has? Holy COW there's a ton of stuff you can do... I don't think TOOLBOX can all this...;-) J
• The label on this section says "free Tools". This is not a free tool. Cool Guys: Right, this is a free evaluation.
• It abended my server...looked pretty though. From Wade: This is a client-based tool, no part runs on the server. This utility is running in over 100+ shops (that I know of) - to date this is the first 'Abend' I've heard of coming from AVP. Send me more info.