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Edit Database Storage Preferences

Edit the database storage preferences to specify:

A full or nearly full hard drive affects reporting of existing data and collecting new data. Several options are available for setting the duration of data storage and the type of data to retain. For more information, see the following sections. By default, the management console stores the following types of data for the following amounts of time:

Data Type

Stored for

Storage Time

Historical incident records

As long as 5-minute data is stored

1 to 12 months

5-minute data

1 month

1 to 12 months

Hourly data

6 months

1 to 12 months

OLA data

13 months

1 to 25 months

Follow these steps:

  1. Click the Administration page
  2. Click Console, Database, Maintenance in the Show Me menu.

    Database Maintenance opens.

  3. Edit the database storage preferences
  4. Specify how the management console should notify you when available disk space falls below the threshold.

    For information about setting database storage preferences, click Help.

  5. Click OK.