26.0 Managing Database Logs for the Audit Trail

Filr allows you to determine the frequency with which audit trail entries and are deleted from the Filr system.

  1. Log in to the Novell Filr site as the Filr administrator.

    1. Launch a web browser.

    2. Specify one of the following URLs, depending on whether you are using a secure SSL connection:

      http://Filr_hostname:8080
https://Filr_hostname:8443

      Replace Filr_hostname with the host name or fully qualified domain name of the Filr server that you have set up in DNS.

      Depending on how you have configured your Filr system, you might not be required to enter the port number in the URL. If you are using NetIQ Access Manager, the Filr login screen is not used.

  2. Click the admin link in the upper-right corner of the page, then click the Administration Console icon Lucene Nodes page.

  3. Under Management, click Database Logs.

  4. In the Manage Database Logs section, the following options are available:

    Automatically Delete Audit Trail Entries Older Than xx Days: Specify the maximum number of days to keep audit trail log entries before they are deleted. The default is 183 days (6 months). The allowed minimum is 30 days.

    Audit trail entries are used to build the Activity and Login reports. Removing older entries limits the possible time span for these reports. (For more information about these reports, see Section 28.2, Monitoring Filr by Generating Reports.)

    The Filr desktop application relies on audit trail data when doing full synchronizations.

  5. Click OK.