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 in the table:
Tip
To display or hide fields, click
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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
In S3 terms, this is a prefix that may be common to multiple object keys (names). Specifying a prefix defines a scope of objects to which the rule applies. For example, if you specify sales/jan, all objects in the view that have object keys that begin with sales/jan will fall into the scope.
In terms of file and directory nomenclature, a prefix is a file and/or directory path within the view that can include part of the file or directory name. It can be common to multiple items in order to catch them all within the scope.
For example, if you want to specify all files under a directory called sales that resides under the view, you can enter sales/. This prefix will exclude the directory itself from the scope. If you were to enter sales that would include the directory as well as all the files under the directory. If you were to enter sales/j that would include all files under the directory with names that begin with 'j'.
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.
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 5.3.4.