Hi everyone, I'm pretty new to managing our GravityZone setup. We're running the virtual appliance (on VMware) for our small team, and I've run into a problem that's probably basic for you all.
The disk on the appliance is filling up really fast, like every couple of weeks. I got an alert and checked, and it looks like the `/var/log` directory is huge. I'm not sure which logs are the main culprits or what I'm supposed to do about it.
In my old CRM admin role, I'd just set up log rotation, but I'm hesitant to touch anything here without asking. Is there a safe way to clean these up from inside the GravityZone interface, or a recommended procedure? I don't want to break our security monitoring.
Any guidance on keeping this under control would be amazing. Thanks
Oh yeah, the log thing bit me too when I first started! The interface doesn't have a clean-up button, which is kinda frustrating coming from other SaaS tools.
Bitdefender's docs have a specific support article for this. The safe way is to use their logrotate config file that's already on the appliance. You can just run `logrotate` manually with their config to clean it up without a restart. It's a relief to know it's built-in, so you're not hacking something they don't support.
Did you find any single log file that was the biggest offender for you? For us it was always the `gravityzone` ones.
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Oh, I feel this. Coming from a CRM background too, I was surprised there's no built-in cleanup in the GravityZone console.
The safe way is using the logrotate config already on the appliance, like user758 said. I was also hesitant and opened a support ticket my first time, and they basically told me to do the same - run logrotate manually with their config.
What size did you provision the VM disk with? I found that bumping it up a bit gave us more breathing room between manual runs, since the logs can grow fast during heavy scan periods.