The grid is populated with the 20 most recent instances of housekeeper execution.
Instances are displayed in reverse chronological order. The following columns are displayed:
•Housekeeper: one of:
o Audit record housekeeper: responsible for the removal of expired audit entries from the operational database. The default retention period is 90 days.
o File system housekeeper: responsible for the removal of files from:
§ The file system Recycle Bin. Files are removed after a default retention period of 90 days.
§ The folder defined by client system configuration setting FileOutputDirectory or server setting GlobalFileOutputDirectory (as appropriate). Files are retained in the folder for the number of days defined by system configuration setting FileOutputDirectoryFileLifetime. After this period, the file system housekeeper deletes any files in the (Global)FileOutputDirectory. In addition, any deleted files’ parent folders are removed. By default, FileOutputDirectoryFileLifetime is set to 90 days at new RPI client installations.
o Audience housekeeper: responsible for the removal of leftover temporary audience tables from the data warehouse. An audience may remain in a Paused, Failed or Rolled Back state for 28 days before expiry. An audience may remain in a Playing state without occurrence of new activity for 100 days. A Completed or Stopped audience remains stored in the database for 7 days.
o Fulfillment activity housekeeper: ceases fulfillment activities’ monitoring for fulfillment state changes after 30 days. Also requests that channels clean up any external provider-supplied entities (e.g. SFMC email send definitions, which are deleted in accordance with a channel’s No. of days fulfillment active property).
o My jobs housekeeper: responsible for the removal of expired jobs from the operational database. On the housekeeper's execution, any jobs with a housekeeping date less than the current date and time are removed. At a job's creation, its housekeeping date is set as follows:
§ Config jobs: now + 28 days
§ Others: now + 90 days
o Staged offer content housekeeper: removes any staged email offer content after a period in days accordant with system configuration setting DaysToRetainStagedContent (set to 90 days by default).
•Running: a true/false flag, indicated using a tick or cross.
•Started: the date and time of housekeeper activity commencement.
•Completed: the date and time of housekeeper activity completion.