The General Settings page allows you to define global settings that control the behavior of Identity Reporting.
Click Settings in the left navigation menu.
To define the general settings:
To specify how long completed reports should be retained, specify the unit of time (days, weeks, or months) and a number in the Delete generated reports after field.
To specify how often data should be collected, specify the unit of time (days, weeks, or months) and a number in the Collect reporting data from connected systems every field. This value defines a schedule for data collection.
To specify how long data should be retained, specify the unit of time (days, weeks, or months) and a number in the Keep collected reporting data for field.
To specify the preferred language that will be used for data collection, select the language in the Collect reporting data from Identity Vaults and connected systems in the following language in field. Generated reports will always show data in this language.
NOTE: Step 2a applies to Identity Governance only. Steps 2b to 2d are applicable to Identity Manager.
To save your changes, click Save.
To manage your data:
Click Start Data Collection to collect data from all defined data sources immediately.
When Identity Reporting executes a data collection operation, it stores all data collected in the Identity Information Warehouse. The data are stored in tables within the idm_rpt_data schema in the SIEM database. Some tables are not updated until the objects they contain are assigned to related objects. For example, the categories that are added to the DAL choice lists for roles and resources are not populated in the idmrpt_category table until they have been assigned to an object.
Click Delete Collected Data to purge historical data from the reporting database immediately.
When Identity Reporting executes a data purge operation, it only purges data from the history tables that is older than the retention value specified for the Keep collected reporting data interval setting. Any historical data that is more recent than the retention interval permits will be retained.
To determine whether the data should be retained or purged, Identity Reporting calculates the difference (in seconds) between the current time and the timestamp for the collected data and compares this value to the retention interval. To make the comparison, Identity Reporting translates the retention interval to a value in seconds. For example, if you specify 1 day as the retention interval, Identity Reporting compares the age of the historical data to 864000 seconds.
The Delete Collected Data action does not remove any of the current state data.
Archiving reporting data If you want to archive data in the reporting database, you need to use the archiving tools provided with PostgreSQL. For more information, see the PostgreSQL documentation.