6. Management Jobs¶
Management Jobs assist in the cleaning of old data from Tower, including system tracking information, job histories, and activity streams. You can use this if you have specific retention policies or need to decrease the storage used by your Tower database. From the Settings (
) menu, click on Management Jobs.
Job types are available for you to schedule and launch:
Cleanup Activity Stream: Remove activity stream history older than a specified number of days
Cleanup Job Details: Remove job history older than a specified number of days
6.1. Removing Old Activity Stream Data¶
To remove older activity stream data, click on the launch (
) button beside Cleanup Activity Stream.
Enter the number of days of data you would like to save and click Launch.
6.1.1. Scheduling¶
To review or set a schedule for purging data marked for deletion, click on the 
button.
Note that you can turn this scheduled management job on and off easily using the ON/OFF toggle button to the left of the Job Name.
Click on the Job Name, in this example “Cleanup Activity Schedule”, to review or edit the schedule settings. You can also use the 
button to create a new schedule for this management job.
Enter the appropriate details into the following fields and click Save:
Name (required)
Start Date (required)
Start Time (required)
Local Time Zone (the entered Start Time should be in this timezone)
Repeat Frequency (the appropriate options display as the update frequency is modified.)
The Details tab displays a description of the schedule and a list of the scheduled occurrences in the selected Local Time Zone.
Note
Jobs are scheduled in UTC. Repeating jobs that runs at a specific time of day may move relative to a local timezone when Daylight Saving Time shifts occur.
6.1.2. Notifications¶
To set or review notifications associated with this management job, click the Notifications ( 
) icon.
Click the 
button to create a new notification. Notification types include:
Email
Slack
Twilio
PagerDuty
HipChat
Webhook
IRC
Mattermost
Rocket.Chat
Refer to Notifications in the Ansible Tower User Guide for more information.
6.2. Removing Old Job History¶
To remove job history older than a specified number of days, click on the launch () button beside Cleanup Job Details.
Enter the number of days of data you would like to save and click Launch.
You can review or set a schedule for cleaning up old job history by performing the same procedure described for activity stream management jobs. See Scheduling for detail.
You can also set or review notifications associated with this management job the same way as described in Notifications for activity stream management jobs, and refer to Notifications in the Ansible Tower User Guide for more detail.