topic Re: Clean up unused profile policies? in Network Access Control

Clean up unused profile policies?

Josh Morris — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:58:17 GMT

I have imported a couple large profiling libraries and found that I'm not using (nor do I intend to use) many of the policies that were in the libraries. Should I go through and delete the profiles that I will not be using? Would the fact that the profiles are there create any space/resource issues? A general concern is that I am getting ready to move to a new 2.6 environment, and the less gremlins I have to move, the better.

Re: Clean up unused profile policies?

Marvin Rhoads — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:03:39 GMT

I've never gone to the trouble of doing so during numerous upgrades.

Do use the Upgrade Readiness Tool. It will clear up 99% of any potential issues that will affect an upgrade.

One thing that helps is to perform a fresh data purge (if you don't have any requirement to retain the old data) just prior to beginning your upgrade. That can save several hours per node.

Re: Clean up unused profile policies?

Jason Kunst — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 06:07:42 GMT

echoing @Marvin Rhoads You can remove anything you don't want but unless you're pushing 2000 profiles it shouldn't really matter. If you have too many gremlins why not build a new deployment? If its lab then snapshot a fresh install.

Re: Clean up unused profile policies?

Josh Morris — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:58:29 GMT

I couldn't stand it, I had to do something. Especially after reading the response from @Jason Kunst . I had 2,300 profiles in my library. Some of them had to go. After a couple hours I've managed to get down to about 1,300. I feel much better about it now!

Re: Clean up unused profile policies?

Jason Kunst — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 02:41:53 GMT

It’s good to be organized:) wow you had a lot