OS Software Updates - Obsolete Filesets Cleanup
What
In FileWave you can patch your Apple and Windows devices very easily but over time you will accumulate many Filesets related to OS patching. This feature that was added to FileWave 16.2.0 will allow you to perform a quick and easy cleanup.
When/Why
While the updates don't occupy much space at all on your FileWave Server, you may not want to have hundreds or thousands of OS update Filesets in your Filesets view. In the past you would have to manually figure out what patches were old enough to want to purge. Now you can simply purge updates that have not been requested in a set amount of time.
How
First it is important that your account has permissions to perform these actions. In Assistants -> Manage Administrators as shown in the below image notice if you have Manage Updates enabled. If you'll be using Automations then ensure you have that right as well.
The next thing is to determine what you consider to be old enough to purge. In Preferences within FileWave Central you can pick 30, 60, 180, or 365 days. For most people 60 or 180 days is the best value. It gives an update enough time that it hasn't been requested. You'll want to go in to Preferences and pick a value.
Next to do the cleanup you'll want to go to the Software Updates section of Central and click on the Obsolete Filesets Cleanup button in the toolbar. A dialog like the below will appear. Now simply click Select All and then click the Delete Selected button to purge them.
Note that this will only purge OS updates, but will purge both Apple as well as Windows OS patches. If a device later needs an update that was purged it will appear as New in the Software Updates section and you can make a Fileset for it again. For this reason it might be too aggressive to pick 30 days since you might find that updates are often purged and then need to be created again.
Those are the only steps. For now this is a manual process but in the future it might be something where automation is added for it.
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