Partition Configuration

The Partition Configuration tab in the SDM allows you to set parameters to auto-archive partitions. It also allows you to auto-add partitions.

To configure auto-archive parameters:

  1. Click the Partition Configuration tab. The Partition Configuration window displays.

  2. Select the table group from the drop-down list.

  3. Specify the following partition configuration information:

    • Partition Interval: Specify the number of partitions that should be created per day or per hour.

    • Days Online: Number of days of data to keep online in the database.

    • Archive destination: Specify the destination to store the automatically archived data and the manually archived data.

    • Offline operation: Select to archive or drop the data.

    Data that is dropped without archiving cannot be retrieved by using the SDM. You should almost always select the archive option.

  4. Specify the Job Schedule parameters:

    • Select Jobs Enabled check box if it’s not selected. By default, the Jobs Enabled check box is selected if you selected this feature during installation.

    • Schedule adding partitions and offline operation parameters. Click Save.

    • Click History to view the Job History.

    Partition Job scheduling through the SDM is reflected only after the partition job refresh interval.The default partition job refresh interval is 5 minutes.

    To change the partition job refresh interval, edit the partitionJobRefreshInterval option specified in the /opt/novell/sentinel6_rd_x86-64/config/das_core.xml file. The partitionJobRefreshInterval option is provided as part of the Scheduler component in the DAS_Core container.

    After you update the partitionJobRefreshInterval, restart the Sentinel service in order for the new refresh interval to take effect.

  5. Specify the Job Properties:

    • Add Min: Minimum number of days of partitions for future data that should exist in the database at any time

    • Add Max: Maximum number of days of partitions for future data that should exist in the database at any time

    • Archive Chunk: Minimum number of days of partitions that apply to the total number of days of partitions for the Archive.

    NOTE:If the fewer than Add Min days partitions exist in the database, partitions are added until there are enough partitions for Add Max days. Archiving is done in chunks of days so that these database operations are not necessary every day.

  6. Click Save.

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