How do you manage the contents of the data files?

An installation with a regular schedule of printing jobs will accumulate accounting, post-print accounting, and audit data that must be managed carefully to avoid potential performance problems. Periodically, the log files must be either purged or moved to a different folder. If you do not do either of these tasks, your installation might run out of space on the file system, preventing you from printing any more jobs. To avoid this problem, you should purge or move the accounting and audit logs as part of your system maintenance.

We recommend that you move the data to another file system rather than deleting it from the system. That way, you can store accounting data and delete it from the system when you no longer need to refer to it. This procedure describes one way to copy the data to a new location.

  1. On your InfoPrint Manager server system, open the Management Console and click Edit → Service Configuration.
  2. Make note of the directory that is listed in the Install path field.
  3. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the install path\bin directory.
  4. In that directory, find the log file that you need to move, for example, jobcompletion.log and select it.
  5. With the file selected, click Edit → Copy.
  6. Navigate to the directory that you want to archive the log file in and select the directory.
    Note: This directory might be on a different Windows system than the one you are currently working on.
  7. With the directory selected, click Edit → Paste.
  8. Verify that the log file appears in the new directory.
  9. Navigate back to the install path\bin directory.
  10. In that directory, find the log file that you need to move, for example, jobcompletion.log and select it.
  11. With the file selected, click File → Delete.
To delete the jobcompletion.log file without storing the data in another folder, use the procedure above, skipping steps five through ten.

When the next job is submitted for printing, InfoPrint creates a new jobcompletion.log file and writes the data into that file.

Parent topic: Working with PSF accounting, post-print accounting, and audit data about the job