Security Compliance

Determine disk usage and how many days of data are in the SEM database

This article explains how to determine how much data your events are taking up on the disk in SEM and how many days of data are in database.

First published date

10/30/2018 6:56 PM

Last published date

10/30/2018 6:56 PM

Overview

This article explains how to determine how much data your events are taking up on the disk in Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager) and how many days of data are in database.

Product section

Security Event Manager

Resolution

Go to the back end using PuTTY or the vSphere console.
In Advanced Configuration, click Enter.
Open or install the reports software, and then run the Database Maintenance Report.
On the left column under Database Time Span, the number beside Alert shows how many days worth of data SEM has.

Note: There is no setting on the SEM to set the length of time to store data - it just shows storage space. This information is helpful if you're going to have to calculate how much space you will need since everybody's network is different and SEM logs are different for everyone as well.

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