initial pruning script, set to 10 days of history

cron/pruneES.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+#figure out what we are archiving (events-YYYYMMDD index)
+IDATE=`date --date='10 days ago' +"%Y%m%d"`
+INDEXNAME="events-$IDATE" # this had better match the index name in ES
+#maybe we were told what to archive.
+if [[ ! -z $1 ]]
+then
+    INDEXNAME=$1
+fi
+
+HOSTNAME=`hostname`
+echo "Deleting index http://$HOSTNAME:9200/$INDEXNAME/"
+curl -XDELETE "http://$HOSTNAME:9200/$INDEXNAME/"
+echo "DONE"