Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
2. Remove unnecessary data from the database
After WhatsUp Gold is configured to collect data from only passive monitors that are
assigned to devices, the next step is to clear the unneeded data already collected from the
database.
Do this by removing all passive monitor data collected by the application. This removes all
passive monitor data that appears in the SNMP Trap Log (on page 692), Syslog Entries (on page
693), and Windows Event Log (on page 696) reports. Any actions triggered by an incoming
passive monitor event will still appear in the Action Log.
Important: We recommend making a backup of your WhatsUp database should you need to
reverse any of the following changes.
To remove all passive monitor data from the WhatsUp database:
1 Stop all Ipswitch services and applications:
Ipswitch WhatsUp Engine
Ipswitch Web Server$WhatsUp
Ipswitch Discovery
Ipswitch Alert Center
Ipswitch Flow Collector
2 From a command prompt on the WhatsUp computer, execute the following casesensitive
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 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.
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