Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
2 From a command prompt on the WhatsUp Gold computer, execute the following
case-sensitive command on a single line: >sqlcmd -E -S
"%COMPUTERNAME%\WHATSUP" -Q "TRUNCATE TABLE
[WhatsUp].[dbo].[PassiveMonitorActivityLog]"
Note: Replace %COMPUTERNAME% with the name of the WhatsUp Gold computer.
The command listed above assumes you are using the SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
database that is installed with WhatsUp Gold. If you are using an alternate database
configuration, contact your database administrator to determine what information
should be included with the "-S" switch.
After you have removed all the Passive Monitor data from the WhatsUp database, you can
optionally shrink the WhatsUp database files to reclaim disk space on the SQL server.
To shrink the WhatsUp Gold database:
1 Ensure that all of the Ipswitch service and applications listed above are still stopped.
2 From a command prompt on the WhatsUp computer, execute the following casesensitive
command on a single line:
>sqlcmd -E -S "%COMPUTERNAME%\WHATSUP" -Q "DBCC SHRINKDATABASE
('WhatsUp', 20)"
Note: Replace %COMPUTERNAME% with the name of the WhatsUp Gold computer.
The database shrink could take quite some time depending on the size of the database
and system resources, but reports a short database space analysis after completion.
Note: You can abort the shrink process at any time by using the [CTRL] + [C] keystroke
sequence.
More information on the "DBCC SHRINKDATABASE" command can be found on
Microsoft's web site at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190488.aspx
Important: After you reclaiming database space, you should examine your passive monitors'
configuration. You can do this easily by viewing the the Total Passive Monitors by Type (on
page 443) dashboard report (available on any Home dashboard), and the system-level SNMP
Trap Log (on page 692), Syslog Entries (on page 693), and Windows Event Log (on page 696)
reports. If you have passive monitors assigned to "talkative" devices, or you have monitors
which are not exclusive enough in their search criteria assigned to your WhatsUp devices,
you may re-encounter this problem as more passive monitor data is collected by the system.
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