topic How long autosupport files are kept on the filer? in Active IQ and AutoSupport Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-and-AutoSupport-Discussions/How-long-autosupport-files-are-kept-on-the-filer/m-p/34157#M525 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi, all</P><P></P><P>On DataONTAP 8, are the files under /etc/log/autosupport deleted after appropriate period of time or size?<BR />If yes, can we change its limitation such as the number of days to keep autosupport files?</P><P></P><P>On the filer I implemented last Janually, currently there are 50 files of *.0 and 50 directories of *.files under autosupport directory.<BR />I would like to know whether I should create shell to cleanup these files or not.<BR />Just for your information, the man pages of na_autosupport(8) describes that "The spool size is currently 40 messages."</P><P></P><P>Thank you for your help.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:56:57 GMT mizuhotanaka 2025-06-05T06:56:57Z How long autosupport files are kept on the filer? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-and-AutoSupport-Discussions/How-long-autosupport-files-are-kept-on-the-filer/m-p/34157#M525 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi, all</P><P></P><P>On DataONTAP 8, are the files under /etc/log/autosupport deleted after appropriate period of time or size?<BR />If yes, can we change its limitation such as the number of days to keep autosupport files?</P><P></P><P>On the filer I implemented last Janually, currently there are 50 files of *.0 and 50 directories of *.files under autosupport directory.<BR />I would like to know whether I should create shell to cleanup these files or not.<BR />Just for your information, the man pages of na_autosupport(8) describes that "The spool size is currently 40 messages."</P><P></P><P>Thank you for your help.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:56:57 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-and-AutoSupport-Discussions/How-long-autosupport-files-are-kept-on-the-filer/m-p/34157#M525 mizuhotanaka 2025-06-05T06:56:57Z Re: How long autosupport files are kept on the filer? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-and-AutoSupport-Discussions/How-long-autosupport-files-are-kept-on-the-filer/m-p/34162#M526 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> A additional info here, you have access to at least a dozen of recent ASUPS from Now site -&gt; My Asutosupport,-&gt;RAW Autosupport</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:49:29 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-and-AutoSupport-Discussions/How-long-autosupport-files-are-kept-on-the-filer/m-p/34162#M526 baijulal 2011-04-14T18:49:29Z Re: How long autosupport files are kept on the filer? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-and-AutoSupport-Discussions/How-long-autosupport-files-are-kept-on-the-filer/m-p/34167#M527 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A _jive_internal="true" href="https://community.netapp.com/people/baijulal" id="jive-5006026,969,945,142,156,633" target="_blank">baijulal</A></P><P></P><P>Thank you for your reponse.</P><P>The autosupport is enabled for collecting system log locally, not to send it to remote.</P><P>That's why I would like to know whether autosupport is logrotating or not. Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:41:56 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-and-AutoSupport-Discussions/How-long-autosupport-files-are-kept-on-the-filer/m-p/34167#M527 mizuhotanaka 2011-04-20T07:41:56Z