Orphaned Zencache filling up workstation cache folder

Many GUID folders existing in the

folder

Dates later then 90 Days,  the default setting in ZCC

ZCC / Configuration / Device management / Zen agent cache life and cache orphaning thresholds

14 days and 90 days

This can fill the workstation disk space with old cached patches/bundles

 

For 11.x: This is fixed in version 11.2 - see KB 7010044 "ZENworks Configuration Management 11.2 - update information and list of fixes" which can be found at https://www.novell.com/support 
This does not require any registry change.  Content cleanup of orphan content is automatically run as part of maintenance schedule run two hours after startup and every midnight.  The time to keep orphaned content is set in ZCC/Configuration/Device Management/General/Cache orphaning threshold:

 

For 10.3: This is fixed in version 10.3.4 - see KB 7008244 "ZENworks Configuration Management 10.3.4 - update information and list of fixes" which can be found at https://www.novell.com/support 

Two registry settings now control this functionality

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Novell\ZCM,ContentCleanupInterval 

this setting is a string (1,2,14) that is a number indicating the number of days before unreferenced content is deleted.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Novell\ZCM,DoOrphanedContentCleanup

this setting is a string  (true or false) to turn on/off the cleanup of orphaned content.

this setting may be turned on then off occasionally to avoid overhead since it runs as background thread after each device general refresh.

 

 

zmd-messages.log showing the cleanup occuring when the cache days is set to 1: