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Configuring Alarm Syslog Targets, page 15-17
Configuring Remote Database Settings, page 15-17
Configuring Data Purging and Incremental Backup
The Monitoring & Report Viewer database handles large volumes of data. When the database size 
becomes too large, it slows down all the processes. You...

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–If the database disk usage is greater than 83 GB, a backup is run immediately followed by a 
purge until the database disk usage is below 83 GB. 
–If the backup fails and the database disk usage is greater than 83 GB, the Monitoring & Report 
Viewer decides to wait. 
For example: 
If you...

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ACS displays an alert message when the difference between the physical and actual size of the view 
database is greater than 10 GB and less than 50 GB. Also, an automatic database compress operation 
is triggered when the size of the database exceeds 111 GB to avoid disk space issues. 
ACS...

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Configuring NFS stagging
If the utilization of /opt exceeds 30%, then it is required to use NFS staging with a remote repository in 
order to take successful View database backups and generate support bundles. NFS staging utilizes a 
Network File System (NFS) share as a staging area of...

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Restoring Data from a Backup
Use this page to restore data from the View database that was backed up earlier. You can restore data 
from an incremental or full backup. If you choose to restore incremental backup data, ACS restores the 
full View data backup and then the rest of the incremental backups one at a...

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  Viewing Log Collections
NoteYou can use the refresh symbol to refresh the contents of the page.
Related Topic
Log Collection Details Page, page 15-9
Table 15-3 Log Collection Page
Option Description
ACS Server Name of the ACS server. Click to open the Log Collection Details page and view recently collected logs.
Last Syslog 
MessageDisplay...

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Log Collection Details Page
Use this page to view the recently collected log names for an ACS server.
Step 1From the Monitoring & Report Viewer, select Monitoring and Reports > Monitoring Configuration 
> Log Collection.
Step 2Do one of the following:
Click the name of an ACS server.
Select the radio button of an...

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Related Topic
Viewing Log Collections, page 15-7
Table 15-4 Log Collection Details Page
Option Description
Log Name Name of the log file.
Last Syslog 
MessageDisplay only. Indicates the arrival time of the most recent syslog message, in the format Ddd Mmm dd 
hh:mm:ss timezone yyyy, where:
Ddd = Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed,...

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Recovering Log Messages
ACS server sends syslog messages to the Monitoring and Report Viewer for the activities such as passed 
authentication, failed attempts, authorization, accounting, and so on. 
The syslog messages have a sequence number attached. If the Monitoring and Report Viewer goes down 
or if it is not...

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  Viewing Scheduled Jobs
NoteWhen you change any schedule through the ACS web interface, for the new schedule to take effect, you 
must manually restart the Job Manager process. For more information on the CLI command to restart 
processes, refer to...