Technical Note: [Accelops KB] How to purge, delete, remove, truncate events older than 'x' days

[Andy_G]

Description

Summary of Topic

This process describes how to purge events older than X days.  This applies only to the event db.

Steps

1. Copy the attached purgeData.py script to the /tmp directory
2. SSH to your accelops server
3. Run 'su - admin'
4. Run 'cd /tmp'
5. Run 'python purgeData.py X'

Additional Information

Where X means to purge all the events prior to the most recent X days.  For example, if you have 300 days of data and you use 200 as a parameter, the script purge the oldest 100 days of events.

 Once copied to the /tmp directory, you may need to run dos2unix on the file to convert it to Linux format

dos2unix purgeData.py

Version Application

All