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Table 13 AMP Setup > General > External Logging Section Fields and Default Values (Continued)
Setting
Event log facility
Include audit log
messages
Audit log facility
7. Locate the Historical Data Retention section and specify the number of days you wish to keep client session
records and rogue discovery events.
settings can be set to have no expiration date.
Table 14 AMP Setup > General > Historical Data Retention Fields and Default Values
Setting
Inactive User Data
(2-1500 days)
User Association
History (2-550 days)
Tag History
(2-550 days)
Rogue AP Discovery
Events
(2-550 days)
Reports
(2-550 days)
Automatically
Acknowledged Alerts
(0-550 days, zero
disables)
Acknowledged Alerts
(2-550 days)
Radius/ARM/IDS
Events
(0-550 days, zero
disables)
Archived Device
Configurations
(1-100)
Guest Users
(0-550 days, zero
disables)
Closed Helpdesk
Incidents
(0-550 days, zero
disables)
Inactive SSIDs
(0-550 days, zero
disables)
Inactive Interfaces (0-
550 days, zero
disables)
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Default Description
local1 Select the facility for the event log from the drop-down menu.
No Select Yes to send audit log messages to an external syslog server.
local1 Select the facility for the audit log from the drop-down menu.
Table 14 describes the settings and default values of this section. Many
Default Description
60 Defines the number of days AMP stores basic information about inactive users. A shorter
setting of 60 days is recommended for customers with high user turnover such as hotels.
The longer you store inactive user data, the more hard disk space you require.
14 Defines the number of days AMP stores client session records. The longer you store
client session records, the more hard disk space you require.
14 Sets the number of days AMP retains location history for Wi-Fi tags.
14 Defines the number of days AMP stores Rogue Discovery Events. The longer you store
discovery event records, the more hard disk space you require.
60 Defines the number of days AMP stores Reports. Large numbers of reports, over 1000, can
cause the Reports > Generated page to be slow to respond.
14 Defines automatically acknowledged alerts as the number of days AMP retains alerts that
have been automatically acknowledged. Setting this value to 0 disables this function, and
alerts will never expire or be deleted from the database.
60 Defines the number of days AMP retains information about acknowledged alerts. Large
numbers of Alerts, over 2000, can cause the System > Alerts page to be slow to respond.
14 Defines the number of days AMP retains information about RADIUS, ARM, and IDS
events. Setting this value to 0 disables this function, and the information will never expire
or be deleted from the database.
10 Sets the number of archived configurations to retain for each device.
30 Sets the number of days that AMP is to support any guest user. A value of 0 disables this
function, and guest users will never expire or be deleted from the AMP database.
30 Sets the number of days that AMP is to retain records of closed Helpdesk incidents once
closed. Setting this value to 0 disables this function, and Helpdesk information will never
expire or be deleted from the database. This field only appears if you have enabled
Helpdesk in the AMP Features section.
425 Sets the number of days AMP retains historical information after AMP last saw a client on
a specific SSID. Setting this value to 0 disables this function, and inactive SSIDs will never
expire or be deleted from the database.
425 Sets the number of days AMP retains inactive interface information after the interface has
been removed or deleted from the device. Setting this value to 0 disables this function,
and inactive interface information will never expire or be deleted from the database.
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