Archiving and deleting log files and reports

Archive your log files on a weekly basis.

When the Report Generator processes reporting information, it processes all log files contained in the logs directory you specified and any of its subdirectories. This processing has performance implications as the size of your log data grows. To minimize log processing time, Oracle recommends that you archive your log files on a weekly basis to a directory that is not under the logs directory.

Delete outdated log files.

The EAC script for report generation retains 30 days of log files, in case a report does not generate properly. More specifically, after a report has been successfully generated, any log files that are more than 30 days older than the start of the report’s time period are deleted. By extension, if a report is not successfully generated, no log files are deleted, ensuring that no data is lost.

If you are not using the report generation script, you need to purge log files manually.

Delete outdated reports.

Reports are never deleted by the Endeca Application Controller or Oracle Endeca Workbench. Therefore, it is the administrator’s responsibility to check the contents of the reports directory on the Oracle Endeca Workbench server periodically and manually delete any obsolete or unwanted reports.