Managing Server Disk Space

Managing the server disk space for your Policy Manager system is an important part of system maintenance. You can specify how large the Policy Database can grow before the oldest audit records are either automatically deleted or archived to an ODBC-compliant database and deleted. In addition, you can compact the Policy Database to free up disk space and improve startup time.

In this chapter, you will find the following topics:

The fmcompact Command

The fmcompact command enables you to condense the size of the Policy Database, in essence eliminating allocations for frames that no longer exist and therefore decreasing the amount of space required to retain existing Cisco Secure Policy Manager configuration data. This maintenance utility also improves the startup time for Cisco Secure Policy Manager.

Caution You must close all instances of the GUI client and stop all Cisco Secure Policy Manager services running on the Primary Policy Database before you can compact the Policy Database. Therefore, all communications between the primary server and any secondary servers will fail until you restart the Cisco Secure Policy Manager services on the primary server. You cannot restart these services until the fmrestore operation has completed.

Compacting the Policy Database

The fmcompact command enables you to compact the Policy Database on a primary or secondary server.

To compact the Policy Database, perform the following task:

Step 1 To access the Services applet, double-click Services in Control Panel on the computer that is running the Primary Policy Database (the primary server).

Result: The Services dialog box appears.

Step 2 To safely shutdown the Policy Database and all Cisco Secure Policy Manager services on the primary server, select Cisco Controlled Host Component in the Service list and click Stop.

Result: All Cisco Secure Policy Manager services are stopped.

Step 3 To access the fmcompact command, change to the bin folder under the Cisco Secure Policy Manager folder in a command prompt window.

The Cisco Secure Policy Manager folder is the folder where you chose to install the product on this computer.

Step 4 To compact the current Policy Database copy, type fmcompact at the command prompt and press Enter.

Result: When the fmcompact operation is complete, a message displays "<number> original frames <number> new frames."

Note This operation can take several minutes to complete.

Step 5 To ensure that all changes take effect and to restart the Cisco Secure Policy Manager services, reboot the Cisco Secure Policy Manager server when the command prompt returns.

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