Log Maintenance

The Log Maintenance screens enable you to set both manual and automatic options for deleting log histories. This functionality can be useful for saving disk space when it becomes an issue or if the information they provide is no longer useful. PortalProtect lets you delete logs both automatically and manually.

Manually Delete Logs

This procedure describes the steps required to manually delete logs for PortalProtect.

To manually delete logs:

  1. From the left menu, click Logs > Maintenance, and select the Manual tab on the Log Maintenance screen.

  2. Under the Target group, select whether to delete All logs, or select Specified logs from the following:

  3. Security risk scan

  4. Web reputation

  5. Backup

  6. File blocking

  7. Updates

  8. Unscannable files

  9. Content filtering

  10. Scan events

  11. Event tracking

  12. Data protection

  1. Under the Action group, type a value in days, in the Delete event tracking logs older than and the Delete logs older than fields.

  2. Event tracking logs will be deleted that are older than the number of days you enter in the Delete event tracking logs older than field. Other logs will be deleted that are older than the number of days you enter in Delete logs older than field.

  1. Click Delete Now.

Automatically Delete Logs

You can configure PortalProtect to automatically delete logs. You can set the number of days and/or the size of the logs that must be exceeded before PortalProtect automatically deletes them. If you only want to set one condition, do not specify a value for the other box.

To automatically delete logs:

  1. From the left menu, click Logs > Maintenance, and select the Automatic tab.

  2. Select Enable automatic maintenance.

  3. Under the Target group, select whether to delete All logs, or select Specified logs from the following:

  4. Security risk scan

  5. Web reputation

  6. Backup

  7. File blocking

  8. Updates

  9. Unscannable files

  10. Content filtering

  11. Scan events

  12. Event tracking

  13. Data protection

  1. Under the Action group, type a value in days, in the Delete event tracking logs older than and the Delete logs older than fields.

  2. Event tracking logs will be deleted that are older than the number of days you enter in the Delete event tracking logs older than field. Other logs will be deleted that are older than the number of days you enter in Delete logs older than field.

  1. Click Save.