WSA Disk Space

[jakubblaze]

What is the best way to reduce disk space usage of a virtual web security appliance?

This will be done on a secondary appliance in a backup state so I do not need to retain any tracking or reporting databases.

I am wondering if there is anything similar to this technote for the ESA: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/email-security-appliance/118394-technote-esa-00.html

[Handy Putra]

To reduce the disk space in WSA, you can set your logs to be compressed or send to remote FTP/SCP device or syslog.

To do that go to GUI -> System Administration -> log sybscriptions -> select the logs -> if you want to compress the log files, click the option button to compress the log

In the same page, you can also specify what maximum size of the logs you want to retain (if you store the logs locally in the appliance), also you can specify what maximum number of log files to retain.

The link that you advised is to delete the database, in WSA you can only delete the reporting database only (WSA does not have option to delete the web tracking database in CLI, however doing deletedb will also delete the web tracking database).

Please note deleting database will delete all the reporting database that the appliance currently have at that time.

To do that: CLI -> diagnostic -> reporting -> deletebd

[abdulhadizamri]

Hi Handy Putra,

If we compress the log, do we need to rollover the logs?

Does it have any proxy service interruption on this task?