Configuring the Data Deletion Schedule Settings

Syslog files sent from SonicWALL appliances are stored on the GMS Summarizer system, and are consolidated into the syslog database. The Summarizer processes the syslog data and stores the processed data in the summary database. After the configured period of syslog storage, the syslog data can be periodically deleted from the system. This is necessary, as the syslog files and database can consume a lot of space on the file system.

This section of the Summarizer page also provides a way to delete summarized data for a certain date. For example, if summarized data is kept for a long time, such as 90 days, then you could use this option to remove some summarized data from a particular date within the 90 day period if the stored data was becoming too large.

TIP: Run your database maintenance jobs soon after the completion of the scheduled tasks configured on this page for summarizing data and deleting old syslog data.

To configure the syslog and summarized data deletion settings, complete the following:

1	On the Console panel, navigate to Reports > Summarizer.

2	Under Data Deletion Schedule, select the day and time for deletion in the hour and minute widget. Syslog data is deleted at this time only after being stored for the number of days configured. You specify how long to keep the date in Data Storage Configuration.

3	Click Update to the right of this field.