Purging Metrics Data from the Configuration Database

Use the managedb purge command to remove metrics data from the configuration and management database without archiving them.

You must be superuser to use this command.

You can specify a time parameter with the managedb purge command; metrics data older than the time parameter is purged. The time parameter is the same as for the managedb archive command. See “Archiving Metrics Data from the Configuration Database” for a description of the time parameter.

The following command purges metrics data older than two weeks:

# managedb purge 2w

For more information on the managedb command, see managedb(8).

The archive.cron script enables you to automate the process of archiving metrics data from the cmdb. For more information on this script, see archive.cron(4).