Diagnostics database archiving guide

Database background in Diagnostics Products

The diagnostics products such as SysFaultMgmt and IOProviders uses database (Postgres 8.4.8) for storing and processing data related to events (error logs, WBEM events, etc.).

All the data pertaining to these products are stored in database tables created during the product installation. The list of databases used by the diagnostics products are given below:-

Product Name

User DB Name

DB Purpose

SysFaultMgmt

LOGDB

Current DB

 

LOGARCHDB

History DB

 

evweb

Current DB

 

evweb_history

History DB

ProviderSvcsBase

cer

Lookup DB

IO Providers

DISKPROVDB

Current DB

 

DISKPROVARCHDB

History DB

 

FCPROVDB

Current DB

 

FCPROVARCHDB

History DB

 

RAIDSAPROVARCHDB

History DB

 

RAIDSAPROVDB

Current DB

 

SASPROVDB

Current DB

 

SASPROVARCHDB

History DB

Apart from the above mentioned databases, there are three other databases, namely template1, template0 and postgres which gets created during product installation. These are default reference databases used by Postgres for its internal purposes. The size of these default databases remains constant throughout. ProviderSvcsBase (It is a pre-requisite for SysFaultMgmt and IOProviders) is also responsible for creating a lookup database for the events. This database is known as “cer” database. The size of the cer database is approximately 36 MB. No data gets added to this database and its size remains constant

Upon fresh installation of the SysFaultMgmt, the size of the disk occupied by these databases is approximately 75 MB.

DB Name

DB Size

template1

5384 kB

template0

5384 kB

postgres

5384 kB

cer

36 MB

evweb

6185 kB

evweb_history

6088 kB

LOGDB

5697 kB

LOGARCHDB

5545 kB

Total Disk Space

76531 kB

occupied

(SysFaultMgmt+ProviderSvcsBase)

RAIDSAPROVDB

5553 kB

RAIDSAPROVARCHDB

5464 kB

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HP UX 11i WBEM Software manual Database background in Diagnostics Products, IO Providers

UX 11i WBEM Software specifications

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