Cleaning Up Old QVD Files

Vital Signs creates binary qvd files housing all of the extracted data which are stored in the c:\vitalsigns\cu-name\data\qvd directory.

Note: The vitalsigns directory may be located on a different drive than c:\ .

Starting with Version 1.7 of Vital Signs, released Fall 2015, Vital Signs includes a cleanup job that deletes old QVD files.

Users must explicitly enable the QVD cleanup feature and configure the number of days (and month-ends) of data that Vital Signs should keep.

The QVD cleanup is enabled and configured in the vsigns_srv.ini file.

The actual cleanup is started by launching a job from HPUX:

 /VSJOBS/JVSCLEANUP [[REQDATE=]YYYYMMDD] [PRINT=YES|NO] [DELETE=YES|NO]"

Where: echo " - REQDATE The date in YYYYMMDD format to use to determine the age of the"

     echo "                QVD files to be deleted.  The actual files deleted will depend"
     echo "                on the vitalsigns.ini settings located on the Windows server."
     echo "                o Default is to use the current date."
     echo "                o The keyword REQDATE is not required."
     echo "  - PRINT       YES - Print a detailed listing of the files to delete. (Default)"
     echo "                NO - Only a summary of deleted files is reported."
     echo "  - DELETE      YES - Actually deletes the files. (Default)"
     echo "                NO - No delete is performed, files are listed only."