We just recently upgraded to NCM 7.3. Prior to 7.3 there was a setting that let the user set the number of stored configs settings. Can't find that anywhere now
Hi jeffnorton,
This is controlled by the maintenance jobs since NCM 7.2:
Regards,
Jiri
Thanks. I just remembered that and have just this minute changed the job setting. I also realized when I did that, that since NCM is now distributed across all the pollers that the storage directories have to be the same. That is kind odd in that in other places on NCM, the program let’s you configure a per server storage directory. The Jobs settings have to be the same directory structure on the main and all the pollers. For example, my main server has a c: and d: drive. The OS as well as some of the Orion install programs are there. I use the drive as the main install location for all the rest of the Orion install structure d:\solarwinds. None of my pollers have a d: drive. This means I now have to use the C: drive on my main as storage for the jobs functions. My c: drive is a much smaller drive than the d: drive since it’s dedicated to OS and Program apps. I’d like to see this changed so the jobs storage is a per server setting
Understood. Instead of having per-poller directory settings, wouldn't it be easier for you to store the job results to a shared drive?
By the way, if you have concerns about disk space, I recommend not to use config archive at all. The configs are stored in the DB and wby using a proper combination of Config Export job and these clean-up jobs, you will have the same level of archiving.
I'm not sure I totally agree with your idea on no config archive. We have routers and switches where we've had to go back a year or more to get copies of configs. Also we have over 4000 node elements so carrying that much data in the SQL database just slows it down. It makes more sense to archive really old configs in text form instead of tying up database space. However the idea of storing the results on a shared space is interesting. I'll have to try that and see if it works
