Deleting files automatically

The appliance monitors and frees disk space at regular intervals. It automatically deletes files/artifacts, emails, and virtual machine captures based on size and age limits. It deletes files beginning with the oldest so that all of the artifact types stay within their specified disk space limits. You can change the limits to optimize the cleanup.

The default limits are as follows:

Artifact type and measurement	Default limit
Malicious Files Size	20 GB
Malicious Files Days	30 days
Non-Malicious Files Size	20 GB
Non-Malicious Files Days	15 days
Malicious Virtual Machine Captures Size	20 GB
Malicious Virtual Machine Captures Days	30 days
Non-Malicious Virtual Machine Captures Size	20 GB
Non-Malicious Virtual Machine Captures Days	15 days
Malicious Emails Size	20 GB
Malicious Emails Days	30 days

See the following sections for details on managing the artifact cleanup limits:

Changing limits for automatic artifact cleanup using the CLI
Restoring limits to default values for automatic artifact cleanup using the CLI