Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
Total Rows. The total number of data rows in this table that currently holds data. This
includes live and expired rows.
Expired Rows. The total number of expired data rows in this table. Expired data is
data that has been rolled up, and has not yet been purged by the application or has
not been reused. These are rows that are marked for deletion, or have been kept
longer than needed, according to your data roll-up settings. See Program Options -
Report Data for more information on setting your data roll-up settings.
Click Purge Expired Rows to remove those records from the database.
Program Options - Report Data
This dialog controls how the storage of data is handled in the WhatsUp Gold database. This
data is used to populate the various performance reports available in the application.
Performance Monitor
Rollup raw data after. Raw data is data that is gathered during each reporting
interval configured through Device Properties - Performance Monitors (on page 246).
Until raw data is rolled up, it takes up one row per poll in the database, and cannot be
deleted from the database. When raw data is rolled up, it is consolidated into one row
per hour. It is recommended to set this value as low as possible (as low as 1 hour), to
avoid database overgrowth. Select the number of days and/or hours in the time
boxes. By default, WhatsUp Gold rolls up raw data after 1 day. This means that
between the 24th and 25th hour, WhatsUp Gold rolls up raw data into hourly data.
Rollup hourly data after. After hourly data is rolled up to daily data, hourly entries
are flagged as "deleted," and are overwritten with new performance monitor data.
The number in the hourly data box must be greater than the number of raw data
days. By default, WhatsUp Gold rolls up hourly data after 30 days. This means that
between the 24th hour on the 30th day and the 1st hour on the 31st day, WhatsUp
Gold rolls up hourly data into daily data.
Expire daily data after. After daily data is expired, it is flagged as "deleted" and is
overwritten with new performance monitor data. The number in the daily box must
be greater than the number of hourly data days. By default, WhatsUp Gold expires
daily data after 365 days, or 1 year. This means that in between the 24th hour on the
365th day and the 1st hour on the 366th day, WhatsUp Gold expires daily data.
Note: After a database entry is flagged as "deleted," although it still exists in the database, it
is no longer included in report data. As new performance monitor data is gathered, database
entries flagged as "deleted" are overwritten with new data.
Active Monitor
Select the number of days you want to keep active monitor state change data in your
database. This is historical data that shows when devices changed state during the
monitoring of your network. By default, WhatsUp Gold keeps state change data in your
database for 365 days, or 1 year.
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