Hi,
Thanks much for digging into this issue deeper.
1. "Activity log history to keep" 90 days
"Activity log history shown": 30 days
2. The following is a list of all catalogs along with creation dates and status
| 1 Catalog | 2013-11-06 12:23:46.997 | Ready |
| 2 Catalog | 2013-10-02 21:22:52.043 | Ready |
| 3 Catalog | 2013-09-25 23:08:14.093 | Ready |
| 4 Catalog | 2013-09-25 22:08:59.507 | Ready |
| 5 Catalog | 2013-09-14 19:53:21.863 | Ready |
| 6 Catalog | 2013-09-06 17:33:42.207 | Ready |
| 7 Catalog | 2013-08-09 20:50:53.530 | Ready |
| 8 Catalog | 2013-08-08 16:15:10.323 | Ready |
| 9 Catalog | 2013-07-27 06:00:28.740 | Ready |
| 10 Catalog | 2013-07-12 15:56:09.627 | Unknown |
| 11 Catalog | 2013-05-23 14:55:24.077 | Ready |
| 12 Catalog | 2013-05-09 14:51:53.843 | Unknown |
| 13 Catalog | 2013-05-07 16:38:06.390 | Ready |
| 14 Catalog | 2013-05-01 13:39:57.923 | Unknown |
| 15 Catalog | 2013-04-28 19:29:39.007 | Ready |
| 16 Catalog | 2013-04-18 15:33:29.283 | Ready |
| 17 Catalog | 2013-01-31 21:25:27.987 | Unknown |
| 18 Catalog | 2013-01-04 20:57:52.160 | Unknown |
| 19 Catalog | 2012-12-13 00:17:35.583 | Unknown |
| 20 Catalog | 2012-08-27 22:53:09.837 | Ready |
| 21 Catalog | 2012-05-28 16:25:18.827 | Unknown |
| 22 Catalog | 2012-04-16 11:47:10.567 | Unknown |
| 23 Catalog | 2012-04-15 22:22:48.780 | Unknown |
| 24 Catalog | 2012-04-15 22:22:18.680 | Unknown |
| 25 Catalog | 2012-04-15 22:21:56.637 | Unknown |
| 26 Catalog | 2012-04-15 22:21:38.927 | Unknown |
It seems that there's some catalogs older than 90 days that have status as 'Ready' but I do understand you implication that this may or may not be the case for anything older than the retention policy.
The 'unknown' status of catalogs causes a lot of questions from my clients and makes the interface ugly. Would you be able to provide a query that fixes the status for all catalogs?
FYI, we've filed a case with VMware support so let me know if a database fix should be requested via support.
Thanks
PD