Setting a Schedule for Automatic Purging

The Alarm DB Purge-Archive utility can automatically purge or archive records from the alarm database at scheduled intervals. You can perform a test purge to verify your connection to the database and target locations and to start and stop purging.

To set a schedule for automatic purging

1. Open the Alarm DB Purge-Archive utility. Do the following:

   1. In the Tools view, expand Applications.

   2. Double-click Alarm DB Purge-Archive.

2. Click the Purge/Archive tab.

   

3. In the Time Interval area, select a purge interval, either daily, weekly, or monthly.

   If you click Weekly or Monthly, a Day box appears in the Activation Time area for you to specify the day of the week or day of the month.

   If you click Daily, in the Time box, configure the time of day that you want the purge/archive operation to start.

4. In the Run As area, click Normal application to run the purge-archive utility as an application or click Windows Service to run it as a service.

   For Windows Service, either select Virtual account or specify the username and password for another account under the This account: area.

   Note: For more information on Virtual account, see Using Virtual Accounts.

5. Click Apply to save your purge and archive settings.

6. Click Activate to place the Alarm DB Purge-Archive utility on an automatic purge schedule.

7. Click Close.

   To stop the automatic purge schedule and remove the Window Service, click Deactivate. After a brief delay the service will be removed from Window Services.