13.0 Database Maintenance

Identity Governance maintenance and archiving features allow Global, Data, Maintenance, and SaaS Ops Administrators to archive data, to clean up old and unused data, and to schedule maintenance. Use these features to maintain and monitor your data. For more information about Identity Governance authorizations, see Section 2.0, Adding Identity Governance Users and Assigning Authorizations.

WARNING:You must have an effective data cleanup, archiving, and maintenance strategy. You must cleanup your operations database, create external archive destinations, schedule maintenance, and rename and rotate archives. Not following these database maintenance requirements and data retention recommendations outlined below will result in performance issues and you will not have historical data.

We recommend that you keep all your operations data for 30 days except for review instances and request data. We recommend that you keep your review and request instances for 90 days and archive every week. However, adjust specific timeframes and your archiving and maintenance strategy based on your system requirements, scope of governance activities, data dependencies, and data analytical and maintenance requirements.

For more detailed information about Identity Governance capabilities and procedures, see the following sections: