Auto cleanup of database revisions

[ChrisA]

We're running CheckPoint NGX HFA02.

If we check "Create new database version upon Install Policy Operation", can we create a script in our SmartCenter Server (SPLat) to delete directories under $FWDIR/conf/db_versions/repository/ so that only, say, five database versions are saved, and use cron to schedule the script to run regularly? Will this method of cleaning up old database versions do any harm, or must these versions be deleted manually? Is there a better way to maintain the database versions?

[northlandboy]

It's not going to harm anything, but the versioning_db.fws file will get out of date.

You could look into the dbver command. ($FWDIR/bin/dbver -help). It's documented in the CLI PDF.