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Dear Forum,

Need help, in Symantec SEP 12.1 there is a log or some file that we want to delete, see attachment as detail, because we need the space (about 50 gb), is there ok if we delete the file?

Regards

Joe.

Check

Disk Space Management procedures for the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH96214

Changing the log settings to reduce the size of the database.

Symantec Endpoint Protection virus definition folder consumes a large amount of disk space

Best Practices for configuring the number of content revisions to keep in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager

Check these Articles:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH102927

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH141811

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/issue-related-low-disk-space

TECH100019   How to manually repair or backdate virus definitions for Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.x and 9.x

TECH103176   How to clear out corrupted definitions for a Symantec Endpoint Protection client manually

How to clear out definitions for a Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 client manually

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO59193

Drive Space used by Virus Definitions Updates

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH141811

How to clear out definitions for a Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 client manually

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO59193

Disk Space Management procedures for the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH96214

Those are the folders where virus definitions are stored. You can open the contentinfo text file and it will tell you what are stored in each of those alpha numberic folders.

Once you clear whats inside the folder the folder will be re-populated when new defs are downloaded.

To check the space you need to make the Content revision stored in SEPM to 3 ( I believe you have set it to 10 now)

Do not delet anything from inetpub/contet manually - this content mirrors what is in the database and will repopulate automatically as soon as you delete it. Those are SEPM definitions and not log files. In order to limit the space used by those please change the settings for SEPM signature retention:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH92225

Hello,

I agree with Sebastian's comment.

How many clients is this SEPM managing?

In case you are storing 30 days worth of definitions - how many revisions are set to be stored on SEPM - 90? Symantec releases around 3 defs updates every day = 30days/90 revisions

90 revisions would mean 180 defs revisions stored in reality (64 and 32bit) these are around 230MB compressed and additionaly around 400 MB uncompressed - that gives you 180 x 630MB = approx. over 110GB only for the AV Defs - so this is expected.

Try to limit the stored revisions if they are not really required by the clients:

Once you changed the number of revisions to keep, just run LiveUpdate: this should apply your changes and automatically delete oldest definitions.

How to change the number of downloaded content revisions that are retained by the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager versions 11.0. or 12.1

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH104845

Maintaining the database

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO55337

Disk Space Management procedures for the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH96214

Changing the log settings to reduce the size of the database.

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH105238 

Check this Thread: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/sepm-content-folder-size

Hope that helps!!