Maintenance

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The Maintenance task is available to you as a valuable component of repository management.  This task can typically be used in its own workflow that is set up to run on a schedule.  The purpose of this task is to delete older jobs and their included files which can consume space.  You can set this task to delete jobs older than a specified amount of time in hours, days, or months.  Whenever this task is run, it will delete the jobs as specified.

 

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Figure 1:  The Maintenance task is selected in the Selected Tasks Menu.

 

Configuration

There are only a few simple steps to configuring the Maintenance task.

 

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Figure 2:  The Configuration Menu for the Maintenance task.

 

Select Time Unit - You should first specify the time unit by selecting from three available choices in the provided drop down menu: Hours, Days, or Months.
Specify Count - Next, you will need to add the numerical value of the count in relation to your specified Time Unit.

 

After completing these configuration steps, you should select the Update Button to preserve your edits to this Task. You may now want to set up a schedule to run this workflow. If you finished configuring the Job, select the Save button in order to save all the settings for the Job.