Create a data management policy

Define a set of rules for managing table data on your instance.

About this task

After upgrading to Xanadu or higher, data management policies are automatically created for any table with an archive rule or table cleaner rule. If a data management policy doesn't exist for a table on your instance, you can create one manually.

Before you begin

Role required: admin

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > System Data Management > Data Management Policies.
2. Optional: Determine if a data management policy exists for the table that you want to manage by searching the Tablename column.
   If the table already has a data management policy record, use that record instead of creating one.
3. Select New.
4. On the form, fill in the fields.

   Table 1. Data Management Policy form

   Field	Description
   Name	The name of the data management policy that typically includes the table name.
   Tablename	The table that you want to manage to use a data management policy.
   Description	An optional summary of the data management policy and its rules.
   Active	Option to activate the data management policy. You must activate the data management policy for any of its rules to be activated. Clear this option to deactivate all the rules under the data management policy.

5. Select Update.

Result

A data management policy is established for the designated table. You can now create multiple data management rules for the table directly from the data management policy record.

What to do next

Define archive and cleanup rules for the table by creating rules in the data management policy.

• Create an archive rule
• Create a table cleanup rule