Viewing Lifecycle Rules and Object Expiration

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Viewing Lifecycle Rules in VAST Web UI

In the left navigation menu, choose Element Store -> Lifecycle Rules to open the Lifecycle Rules page.

For each configured lifecycle rule, the following information can be displayed:

Tip

To display or hide fields, click column_menu.png to the right of a column title, and then click columns.png to open a dropdown where you can select or unselect fields.

ID

The ID of the lifecycle rule.

Name

The name of the lifecycle rule.

Prefix

A prefix that is common to all elements for which the rule applies.

Min Size

The minimum size of objects to which the rule applies, if configured.

Max Size

The maximum size of objects to which the rule applies, if configured.

Expiration Days

A number of days after upload when objects in the scope are expired.

View

The view to which the rule applies.

Tenant

The tenant where the rule applies.

Enabled

Indicates whether the rule is currently enabled or not.

  • In the Inspect panel to the right of the table (click the arrow to expand), you can see details per rule, and this information includes tags, if applicable.

    Notice

    The ability to specify an object scope according to tags is introduced in VAST Cluster 5.4.1.

Viewing Lifecycle Rules in VAST CLI

To list lifecycle rules per view, run the lifecyclerule list command.

To view details of a lifecycle rule, run the lifecyclerule show command.

To see when an object in a bucket governed by S3 lifecycle rules is due to expire, run the lifecyclerule get-object-expiration command.