Viewing Lifecycle Rules and Object Expiration

Viewing Lifecycle Rules from the VAST Web UI

On the LifeCycle Rules tab of the Element Store page, click Create Lifecycle Rule.

The following details are displayed for each configured lifecycle rule:

Name	The name of the rule.
Prefix	In S3 terms, this is a prefix that may be common to multiple object keys (names). Specifying a prefix defines a scope of objects to which the rule applies. For example, if you specify sales/jan, all objects in the view that have object keys that begin with sales/jan will fall into the scope. In terms of file and directory nomenclature, a prefix is a file and/or directory path within the view that can include part of the file or directory name. It can be common to multiple items in order to catch them all within the scope. For example, if you want to specify all files under a directory called sales that resides under the view, you can enter sales/. This prefix will exclude the directory itself from the scope. If you were to enter sales that would include the directory as well as all the files under the directory. If you were to enter sales/j that would include all files under the directory with names that begin with 'j'.
Min Size	The minimum size of objects to which the rule applies, if configured.
Max Size	The maximum size of objects to which the rule applies, if configured.
Expiration Days	A number of days after upload when objects in the scope are expired.
View	The view to which the rule applies.
Enabled	Indicates whether the rule is currently enabled or not.

To list lifecycle rules per view, use the lifecyclerule list command.

To list details of a lifecycle rule, use the lifecyclerule show command.

To see when an object in a bucket governed by S3 lifecycle rules is due to expire, use the lifecyclerule get-object-expiration command.