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435.0. "would the ability to clean up "failed" save and restore requests from policy db be useful?" by COOKIE::LEWIS () Thu Apr 17 1997 12:13

While fixing the current database clean up utility so it will actually
delete the records as docuemented I wonder if it would be useful to also
be able to delete "failed" requests.  

The way the cleanup currently should work (and is now fixed to work) is
that it deletes "one-time-only" that have been around for more than 72
hours (this is currently modifiable) since the last successful execution
of the job.  What I found in my testing is that we have quite a few that
failed the last time they were executed (they were tests and were supposed
to fail) and so they never get cleaned up.


Do you all think it would be helpful to customers to be be able to specify
that entries should be removed from the policy db if they are one time
only requests and are more than a certain number of days old, and it doesn't
matter if they succeeded or failed.

Let me know by replying to this note.

Thanks!
Jim

Hi Jim,

Yes, this would be useful if it something they can turn on and off.
Some customers may want to see what has failed before it get deleted,
others may not care.

Ted

    Jim,
    
    I think, the cleanup should wipe out failed SR as well after the 72 hour
    limit. If a SR fails and nobody cared to take action within 3 days, it
    is most probably, because nobody is interested in it anymore.
    
    If the time limit (72 hours) is selectable and the option, whether or
    not failed SR should be removed, is available, I think this will perfectly 
    serve the customers' needs.
    
    Ewald.