Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
Purge the Archive Data table. Select this option to purge archived flow data. This
table holds archived flow information, includes source and destination host
identification as well as traffic values in number of flows, packets and bytes.
Purge the Archive Host table. This table holds archived host information discovered
during the processing of flow information.
Purge the Archive Interface table. Select this option to purge interface traffic data.
This table holds archived information about interface traffic, including traffic values in
number of flows, packets and bytes.
Purge the Archive NBAR table. Select this option to purge NBAR information
gathered by Flow Monitor. This table holds archived information gathered using
NBAR, including application identification as well as traffic values in number of
packets and bytes.
Purge the Archive CBQoS table. Select this option to purge archived CBoS
information. These tables hold archived CBQoS information about the effectiveness
of policies based on the defined classes.
Maintaining log data during a purge
You can configure Flow Monitor to keep a given number of days of log data during a purge of
the Log table.
Enter the number of days of logs you want Flow Monitor to maintain in Delete log records
older than xx days. Log data that is older than the configured number of days will be purged
from the Log table.
Restarting the Ipswitch Flow Collector service
After you have selected or configured all of the appropriate database table maintenance
tasks, select Start Ipswitch Flow Collector service upon completion. This restarts the
service so that Flow data collection can resume.
Review your selections, then click OK to begin database maintenance. The database
maintenance process could be lengthy depending on the size of the tables in your Flow
Monitor database and archive database.
Important: Do not navigate away from this page or close the Web browser until the process
finishes completely. Failure to wait on the process to complete may result in database
corruption or data loss.
Stopping or restarting the collector
You can restart the Flow Collector Service through WhatsUp Gold, and Windows.
To restart the Flow Collector Service through WhatsUp Gold:
From the WhatsUp Gold web interface, (Admin > Admin Panel) select the Flow Collector
service, then click Stop or Restart.
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