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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 9, 2017

Change dafault on deployments

Reevaluate default settings for retention of events and how frequent you pull or generate them.

Option set:
Activity Log Retention: 120 Day(s) - keep actlog longer than 4 quarter time limit, 100 days bare minimum, old setting from a time when 1GB of actlog was 1GB to much, as in from 1995
Activity Summary Retention Period: 365 Day(s) - Keep summary on actions for a year for audit purposes, KPMG/Deolitte will like this
License Audit Period: 14 Day(s) - auditocc table is used widely and regularily, a month I feel is to long.
Event Record Retention Period: 14 Day(s) - No chnage, but...the events table is very heavy on select, yet many do select's on this table a few times a day. Fix this table so that it responds as well with select as with "q event"
Client Action Duration: 5 Day(s) - No change
Scratchpad retention: 365 Day(s) - No change

Montiiorsettings in OC:
Monitor Status: On
Status Refresh Interval (Minutes): 30 ----- Change to 30 min up from 5 min, I've had a few servers go down or not respond due to the default 5 minutes catching it self or to much load caused by frequent collection that no one is looking at 16 hours a day, set the default for 30 minutes. Also this work on the server seems to bog down other activify, even pause it, I've not debugged that further, just a feeling I got.
Alert Active Duration (Minutes): 480 - set for 8 hours to match a working day.
Alert Inactive Duration (Minutes): 4,320 - set for 3 days to cover the weekend
Alert Closed Duration (Minutes): 10,080 - set for a week, with this we can do a custom report in OC on a 7 day top alerts, invaluable for the busy admin.

Idea priority High