The appliance monitors and frees disk space at regular intervals. It automatically deletes files, 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: