Audit Trail Cleaner

Command Line Arguments

Optional Arguments: -h : Displays this help message -? : Displays this help message -help : Displays help message for installing this tool as a service. -f : Runs in silent mode. No standard output and script runs automatically to completion. -l : Sends standard out to logfile created in the directory of this application with name BESAuditTrailCleaner-3.0.10.95.log -L <Folder> : Specify a folder to create logs in. Do not include a file name. -d <BigFix DSN> : Used to specify a DSN to connect to the BigFix Database with. Defaults to bes_bfenterprise if not specified -u <username> : Used to specify a username for SQL authentication to the database. -p <password> : Used to specify a password for SQL authentication to the database. -c : Do NOT count rows prior to deletion. -S : Remove All Audit Trail data. -v : Remove Older Versions of Custom Authored Content. -V : Remove Older Versions of Actions. -R : Remove Older Versions of Relay.dat -o : Remove Deleted Custom Authored Content. -O : Remove Deleted Actions. -t : Remove Useless Action Results. -r : Remove Orphaned Sub Actions. -g : Remove Hidden Manual Computer Group Actions. -G <Days> : Hidden Manual Computer Group Actions expired over this many days will be deleted. (Default 180) -s : Synchronize BigFix Consoles -b <batch size> : Performs database deletion operations in batches of this size. The tool will pause between batches until the user presses a key (unless run in silent mode with -f). -M : Removes Deleted Mailbox Files. -D : Specify a date in MM-DD-YYYY format to have old data removed prior to this date.

Sample calls: BESAuditTrailCleaner-3.0.10.95.exe -h BESAuditTrailCleaner-3.0.10.95.exe -l BESAuditTrailCleaner-3.0.10.95.exe -l -L "C:\Temp" BESAuditTrailCleaner-3.0.10.95.exe -d database_dsn -u database_user -p database_password BESAuditTrailCleaner-3.0.10.95.exe -S BESAuditTrailCleaner-3.0.10.95.exe -S -b 1000000 -f