Configure purge or archive settings

Use the Alarm DB Purge-Archive utility to:

• Select the type of records to purge from the alarm database.

• Purge records automatically on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule.

• Optionally archive purged database records to files.

• Save the status of archive or purge operations to a log file to troubleshoot problems.

• Show the status of purge or archive operations.

  Important: The Alarm DB Purge-Archive utility runs as a set of Windows services. To reduce the security exposure of running the Alarm DB Purge-Archive utility with administrator privileges, the user account permissions are set to non-interactive.