Purging Messages

Use this page to purge selected messages from the reporting datastore.

Message purging occurs in the background so the Message Report Summary page is not locked up while the purge occurs. Therefore, you can do a purge that takes a while to finish; the length of time depends on how many messages need to be purged. However, if you filter reporting messages, the purging process is slowed down; the Message Report Summary page may display incorrect data as some of the data hasn't been purged yet.

The Purge Messages feature may be useful during design and test phases of your project. However, in a production environment, BEA recommends that the management of the data in your database (including purging) is handled by the Database Administrator using database management tools.

  1. Select Operations > Purge Messages.
  2. Do one of the following steps, shown in Table 25-9.
  3. Table 25-9 Message Purging Options 
    To...
    Complete These Steps...
    Purge all messages
    1. Select the Purge All Messages radio button.
    2. Click Purge.
    Purge messages within a specified time frame
    1. Select the Purge Messages From... To... radio button.
    2. In the Purge Messages From field, enter a month, day, year, and time in the format MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS. For example, you can enter 10/10/07 12:45:00 AM.
    3. In the Purge Messages To field, enter a month, day, year, and time in the format MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS.
    4. Click Purge.

Related Topics

To learn more about purging messages, see Reporting in the AquaLogic Service Bus Operations Guide.