Disabling Guidewire PolicyCenter archiving

The process to disable Policy Term archiving differs depending on whether you have ever enabled archiving in Guidewire PolicyCenter:

  • Archiving never enabled
  • Archiving enabled

Archiving never enabled

If you have never enabled archiving in Guidewire PolicyCenter, then you need to do nothing to disable archiving. You simply accept the default archiving configuration, which Guidewire disables in the base configuration by default.

Archiving enabled

After you enable PolicyCenter archiving, you cannot disable archiving entirely unless you drop the application database. This means that once enabled, even after you disable archiving, you still see references to Policy Term archiving within the PolicyCenter user interface.

Do not attempt to disable archiving in a production environment after you have enabled this functionality.

Warning: Do not attempt to reset the value of ArchiveEnabled from true to false. After you set ArchiveEnabled to true and start the server, you cannot change the value of this parameter again. If you reset the value to false, the server does not start. Also, do not remove the archive work queue. Removing this work queue after enabling archiving prevents that application server from starting.

You can actively disable the default, but, unused, configuration elements that PolicyCenter uses in processing archive items. If you choose to disable the unused archiving configuration elements, do the following:

Configuration element

To disable

Batch processing schedule

Comment out the relevant batch processing type in scheduler-config.xml.

Archiving work queue

Set the number of worker instances to 0 in work-queue.xml. Do not attempt to remove or hide this work queue after you enable PolicyCenter archiving.

Archive plugin implementations

Select the Disabled box in the archive plugin editor for the relevant archive plugin implementation. You access the archive plugin editor in Studio in the following location:

configuration > config > Plugins > registry

Rebuild and redeploy Guidewire PolicyCenter for your configuration changes to take effect.

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