Old samples in UIM database - alarm message

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Question: 

- How can I resolve the following error message which is produced every day?

Nimsoft database [UIMDATABASENAME] table RN_QOS_DATA_XXXX has old samples in latest partition XXX when they should no longer be in this partition 

 

Answer: 

- This situation can be produced if the data_engine configuration has the following setting configured “delete_history_samples = 0”

When "delete_history_samples = 0" , no QoS data will be deleted from the database on maintenance, regardless of what delete_raw_samples had been set to.

By default, on a CA UIM install, this value is set to 720.

Consider increasing the value from 0 to a higher number, restart the data_engine probe, and the problem should be resolved.

 

Additional Information:

- https://docops.ca.com/ca-unified-infrastructure-management-probes/en/alphabetical-probe-articles/data_engine

 

- As always, please contact CA Technologies support for CA UIM if you have further questions.

Environment

Release: CNMSPP99000-7.6-Unified Infrastructure Mgmt-Server Pack-- On Prem
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