HP Transcend Traffix Manager manual Optimize databases

Overview of Database Applications 125

3Com recommends that you back up your database regularly, the frequency depending on how important your trend data is to the way you monitor your network. If you want to view and report on your weekly data, you should back up your database once a week. If viewing and storing your trend data is less important, backing up your database once a month may be adequate.

To back up your database:

1Stop the Traffix Server. See “Stopping Traffix Manager” on page 28.

2Copy your Traffix Manager database, using the Traffix Control Panel.

3Restart the Traffix Server. See “Launching the Traffix Manager Server” on page 26.

4You can then make a backup of the copy, while Traffix Manager can continue to collect and store data in the “live” version.

Optimize databases

Optimize re-organizes the physical location of parts of the database so that the database can be accessed more efficiently. It therefore works in an similar way to the defragmentation utility in the Windows operating system.

Subnets Editor Allows you to group the devices on your network by subnet, and assign default DNS domains, using the SubnetsDB file. See “Using the SubnetsDB File” on page 133.

Attribute Lookup Allows you to configure the user-defined attribute lookup programs. See “Contents of the User-defined Attributes Configuration File” on

page 138 for more information.

DHCP Setup Controls the way that IP and MAC address mappings are obtained for Windows DHCP devices.

See Appendix H, “DHCP”, for more information.

Startup Options Allows you to change the name of the Traffix Server. If you are running more than one copy of Traffix Manager, you will have more than one server running in the same network. Defining a server name allows you to differentiate between Traffix Servers when multiple servers are in use.