Archives to Keep The Ammon Settings section offers one settable value, Archives to Keep. By default, the value is –1, which means that the system does not monitor the number of archived files. If the value is greater than zero, then the system retains only that number of the most recent files and deletes the older ones. Caution Use of this setting may lead to unintentional loss of archived audit records. Be sure to consider the possible situations when it may be undesirable to delete archived files automatically.