ILM Dashboard - Partitions Tab

The ILM Dashboard - Partitions tab displays information on current partitions in the system for all maintenance objects that are ILM enabled.

Maintenance Objects: Displays a drop down with list of maintenance objects that are ILM enabled. Selecting a maintenance object displays the maintenance object along with it's partition information such as all partitions Total Size (In GB) and Total Records Based On Last Stats. If no maintenance object is selected, all maintenance objects are displayed along with their partition information.

Checking the PMAX partitions with data displays only those maintenance objects and their PMAX partitions information that have data in the PMAX partitions. If a maintenance object and PMAX partitions with data is selected, only the PMAX partitions information of the PMAX partitions that have data in it are displayed for the selected maintenance object.

Partitions: Displays list of partitions and their details for the selected maintenance object. The partitions are sorted by partition name latest month first. By default, the last twelve months and Pmax partition are displayed by default. User can further search for historical partitions using the filter options upto last four years.

For each partition, it's Compression Type is displayed. Compression Type for each displays "Refer Sub-partition" if the partition does not have compression but one of the sub-partitions does.

For a maintenance object, at any given time, the oldest partition can be requested to be dropped via the "Drop Partition" button. A new "Partition Drop Request" object is then created for this request to go through the approval process. Refer to Dropping A Partition for more information on request to drop partitions and it's approval process.

Sub-partitions: Displays list of sub-partitions and their details for the selected partition. The sub-partitions are sorted by sub-partition name latest month first.

Partition Drop Requests: Displays list of partition drop requests along with it's current status and applicable actions for the current user. Only displayed if there are partition drop request records. Displays partition drop requests for the selected maintenance object, if none is selected then all partition drop requests for all maintenance objects are displayed.

By default, only partition drop requests in Pending and Error status are displayed. For partition drop requests in other statuses, user can use the filter options. Refer to Dropping A Partition for additional information.