Unity Alerts - Do they auto-delete?

Question

I've got a couple of Unity test boxes (300 and 300F) in a lab facility and I've noticed the Alerts seem to clear down by themselves. Some have been acknowledged and some have not, so this doesn't seem to make a difference. I've looked in the online help and various manuals, but it doesn't say anything that would lead me to believe alerts clear down after a week (which is what seems to be happening). Can someone confirm whether this behavior is expected? And whether there is an option to extend or reduce the time in which Alerts auto delete? Or point me at the manual with this info in. I'm running 4.1.0 upgraded last week, I'm not sure if it behaved this way on 4.0.1 as I wasn't exploring alerts at that point. I'm also looking at using the REST API as the method of alerting into a central alerting tool, is anyone else doing this, I've figured out the correct syntax to capture the alerts, but I was wondering if anyone else had successfully adopted this approach (instead of SNMP or SMTP)? Thanks!

JC1976 · Accepted Answer

I raised an SR in relation to the Alerts auto deleting. They created a one line KB article confirming the alerts auto-delete after 7 days as it's not written in any documents. They also confirmed that the 7 day setting is not able to be customized.

https://support.emc.com/kb/494525

Rainer_EMC · Answer

I havent tried it but I think that using syslog is probably the easier way

Rainer_EMC · Answer

thanks for the feedback

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