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Data Retention

The Data Retention section contains settings that determine how long some data is kept by adTempus.

Default History Retention

The Default History Retention option determines how long adTempus retains the history for jobs when the job's history retention option is set to "Use global default setting." History information is removed from adTempus once it is older than the retention period.

By default adTempus is configured to keep information on the most recent 30 executions of each job. If you change this option to retain history for a certain number of days, be sure to consider the effect on jobs that run frequently, and adjust the settings for those jobs to use a shorter retention period as appropriate.

For example, suppose you change the default retention to 60 days, and you have some jobs that run every 5 minutes. These jobs will generate 17,280 instances in a 60-day period. Having a such a large amount of history for many jobs can create performance and database size issues for adTempus depending on your database configuration.

Retain server messages (such as unacknowledged alerts) for __ days

Most messages in the adTempus message log are related to a particular job; these messages are purged from the database according to the history retention settings for the job.

Some messages are not related to any job; these are purged after the number of days you specify here.

Alerts that have not been acknowledged are not deleted even if they are older than the age limit.

Do not delete failed instances that have not been acknowledged

When this option is checked, adTempus will never remove failed job instances that have not been acknowledged, even if the retention period has expired for them. If it is not checked, such instances will be removed according to the retention rules.