Cisco ACS 5.3 patch 8 Volume OPT

Hello

We currently have 12 ACS unit with one of them being a dedicated newspaper collector. We have authentication of 802. 1 x configured for network and Wi - Fi ports. We are authenticating desktop, laptops, smart phones, etc. on our network.

The problem we have is the volume of the OPT exceeding 30% volume size recommended by Cisco TAC after a few months. We have recently added more resources on our network (fusion). We are now on the size of 30% in about 1 month.

In the past, we called Cisco TAC when we had problems with performance Log Collector. It's time was also authenticate clients 802.1 x. We have added a new device and is a dedicated Log Collector. They would check the volume of the OPT and to find that it was about 70% use the size. They launch the Console Root patch and delete the DB and then re-create. We did about 2 times before starting to monitor the size of the volume OPT.

This last time, we ran in the 30% the size of volume more rapid then we had previously. I got a Cisco TAC volume of the OPT to delete and recreate it.

Cisco TAC recommended that we reduce the amount of logs that are sent to the collector of the newspaper. We are currently investigating this option.

The questions I have is:

What percentage of size for the volume of the OPT should be concerned until it starts impacting on the performance of the Log Collector?

Is there another thing we can do to reduce the amount of logs that are sent to the Log Collector?

We have data purge set to 30 days. We are complete and incremental database backups. We also have local send logs to a Syslog server.

We test them make changes to send only AAA Audit logs and statistics system of Log Collector.

Thank you

In the distributed configuration, its recommended to set up a secondary server dedicated as a collector of newspaper. However you have a large deployment, so I'm sure that authentication rate would be too high causing Dungeon size view-basic data on the increase.

In order to avoid running out of disk space, we need to manage. This means identifying the files that are created and written by processes on the system, allocate a budget to space them as if the files remain in their budget all the services can be supported without interruption, then define and implement the necessary facilities so that these files in their budget.

There are two mechanisms to reduce this size and prevent it from exceeding the maximum limit.

1. air scan: this mechanism the data will be purged based on the retention period of data configured or arriving at the upper limit of the database.  In Patch 6 new provided option to demand purging as well.

2. compress: this mechanism frees up unused space in the database without deleting all records. Before the compress option can only be performed manually.  GBA 5.3 Patch 6 there are improvements so it will automatically work every day at a preset time, when specific criteria are met.

What percentage of size for the volume of the OPT should be concerned until it starts impacting on the performance of the Log Collector?

The TAC recommendations are right. You will be able to use all the ACS function if / opt is less than 30%.

Is there another thing we can do to reduce the amount of logs that are sent to the Log Collector?

It seems that you use most of the features/mechanisms to have / low opt. However, you may be interested to read more about scrub data and data compression improvements http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_system/5.4/release/notes/acs_54_rn.html

S ' Please use System Administration > Configuration > journal Configuration > Logging categories > Global to configure only the logs required the sending to the ACS View log-collector.

-Provide the cool screenshot of the page Configuration Monitoring > System Operations > Data Management > removal and backup.

-With the below listed command you can check real and physical terrain database size

ACS-config

Username: acsadmin

Password: *.

acsview show-dbsize

There are some known defects on the same subject. However, the version you use improves database management process.

CSCto47203: ACS 5 runs out of disk space

CSCua51804: see backup fails even when there is disk space

Jatin kone

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