Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - 02-2010 User Manual page 288

2 Select the table group from the drop-down list.
3 Specify the following partition configuration information:
Partition Interval: Specify the number of partitions that should be created per day or per
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hour.
Days Online: Number of days of data to keep online in the database.
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Archive destination: Specify the destination to store the automatically archived data and
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the manually archived data.
Offline operation: Select archive and/or drop the data.
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NOTE: Data that is dropped without archiving cannot be retrieved using SDM. You should
almost always select the archive option.
4 Specify the Job Schedule parameters:
 Check Jobs Enabled checkbox if it's not selected. By default, the Jobs Enabled checkbox
is checked if you have selected this feature during the installation.
 Schedule adding partitions and offline operation parameters, then click Save.
NOTE: Partitioning Job scheduling through SDM is reflected only after the partition
refresh interval. The default refresh interval is 5 minutes. To change the refresh interval,
edit the
pilin_1.0_x86-64/config/das_core.xml
/etc/init.d/sentinel stop
/etc/init.d/sentinel start
Click History to view the Job History.
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partitionJobRefreshInterval
specified in the
/opt/novell/
file and restart the Sentinel service.