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modify the default retention period for a counter

barnabegailliard — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:57:56 GMT

Hello,

Regarding the PerformanceAdvisor, some counter have a short retention, like one week for disk counter.

I have found the way to modify this retention only after i have add the filer to oncommand. And this modification must be done on each counter on each filer.

It's possible to modify the default retention period to be apply to all filer or at least for the new filer ?

[root@oncommand ~]# dfm perf data list

Counter Group Host Name Sample Rate Retention Period Max Records Used Space Max Projected Space

------------------------- ---------------------------------------- --------------- ---------------- ---------- --------------- --------------------

system initenasguyp01a 1.0 minutes 1.0 years 525600 1.25 MB 154 MB

system IN99FIL5 1.0 minutes 1.0 years 525600 923 KB 154 MB

disk initenasguyp01a 1.0 minutes 1.0 weeks 10080 49.1 MB 119 MB

disk IN99FIL5 1.0 minutes 1.0 weeks 10080 11.8 MB 39.6 MB

Best regards.

Barnabe

Re: modify the default retention period for a counter

ppavagad — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 05:53:38 GMT

Hi Barnabe,

I am not sure if this is available in dfm CLI. As a workaround, once the filer is added to DFM server, you could use the following code in linux to modify the retention period on all counters:

for i in `dfm perf data list -o <HostName> | awk '{if(NR>2)print $1}'`; do dfm perf data modify -f -G $i -o <HostName> -r "<RetentionPeriod>"; done;

All you need to do is replace the occurrences of <HostName> & <RetentionPeriod> with your hostname and desired retention period.

Retention Period can be specified as x seconds, minutes, hours, days, or weeks as in the example below.

[root@vmlnx6U4 ~]# for i in `dfm perf data list -o mpo-vsim11 | awk '{if(NR>2)print $1}'`; do dfm perf data modify -f -G $i -o mpo-vsim11 -r "3 days"; done;

Successfully modified the data collection parameters for the counter group.

Please let me know if this works for you.

Best Regards,

Pavan

Re: modify the default retention period for a counter

barnabegailliard — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:49:07 GMT

Hello Pavan,

Thanks you for the command line.

Yes it's a way to modify the retention but we need to add one more action after adding a controller to oncommand.

My wish is to modify the template before adding controller to avoid this action. The retention period is store in option or in the database ?

Best regards,

Barnabe