7.4 Managing Alert Purge Utility
The ingestion of certain data can result in the creation of false matches, alerts, and activities. While correction and data re-ingestion is possible, the system does not remove these erroneously generated matches, alerts, and activities automatically.
There may also be cases when the alerts have been residing in the database due to the retention policies imposed by the regulatory bodies, or the internal policies of the respective organization.
The Alert Purge Utility enables you to identify and remove such matches, alerts and cases, and activities selectively, based on a number of parameters (like the Job ID, Scenario ID, Scenario Class, or a date range with optional alert status codes). Additional parameters enable you to simulate a purge run to determine all found matches, alerts, and activities using the input parameters. You can also limit the alerts in the purge process only to those that contain false matches.
The utility consists of a UNIX shell script, Java executables, a XML File and a configuration file in which you define the process parameters to use in the purge processing. The system directs output to a configurable log file; processing appends this log with information about subsequent executions of the scripts.