Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
The current database size is. This section of the dialog shows the total amount of
space used by the database. If you are using SQL Server 2005 Express as the WhatsUp
Gold database, this section also displays the percentage of the 4 GB file size limit
currently in use.
Validate and compact database. Click this button to execute commands that
validate the database, index, and database links, and to compact the database.
WhatsUp Gold automatically stops the Ipswitch Service Control Manager (ISCM) and
restarts it once the operation is complete.
The validation phase executes the SQL Server commands DBCC CHECKCONSTRAINT, DBCC
CHECKCATALOG, and DBCC CHECKDB. These commands check the integrity of all
constraints in the database, check for consistency in and between system tables in the
database, and check the allocation and structural integrity of all the objects in the
database.
The compacting phase executes the SQL Server command DBCC SHRINKDATABASE,
which shrinks the size of the data files in the database. Note that no compression is used;
the database is simply compacted by removing empty space.
For more information on validating or compacting the database, see Getting Started with
SQL Server (http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/enus/startsql/getstart_4fht.asp)
on the Microsoft Web site..
Database Tools Table Maintenance
This feature lets you purge expired data from data tables in your database. Be very careful
when using this dialog, as data that is purged through this process is lost and cannot be
restored.
Select tables to purge. The data tables are grouped by the purpose they serve
(active monitors, report data collection, and other). Select the tables you want to
purge from the three lists.
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.
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