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
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 5.3.4.
Viewing Lifecycle Rules and Object Expiration 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.