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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 4, 2016

Option to enhance ANR3654W Inventory file expiration when not using replication

When you are using the policies on the target replication server to manage replicated client-node data, you must run expiration processing every 24 hours to allow the target replication server reuse storage pool space that is occupied by expired replicated data.
This will prevent situations where data on source and target replication server are out of sync. ANR3654W is displayed if expiration has not run in the last 24 hours.

There is no documented way to change the fixed setting of 24 hours. This message will be displayed even if replication is not used.
The administrator should be able to willingly change the period for which the message is displayed and shut off this message.

Idea priority Medium