Performing Reporting Database Maintenance

GridServer Managers do not perform any cleanup of data in the reporting database. This is considered a database maintenance activity. As such, it is not managed by GridServer. Consult your database’s documentation for more information about how to perform database cleanup.

To temporarily disconnect the external reporting database for periodic database maintenance, you can suspend the database connection. This backlogs all write events posted to the reporting database until reactivation.

To suspend the database connection, go to Admin > System Admin > Manager Configuration > Database, and change the Connection Suspended property from False to True.

While suspended, all write events posted to the reporting database are backlogged until set back to False. You can also safely stop the database while it is suspended. Set the backlogs sufficiently high so that events are not discarded while suspended. All events are backlogged to memory.