To maintain dashboard performance and ensure that your
system runs efficiently, you can purge, archive, export, and import
instance data for a monitor model version.
The following scenarios explains the benefits of the purging and
archiving function:
Scenario one:
- Your IBM® Business Monitor server has
run for a long period of time.
- The dashboard becomes slow due to the amount of data.
- You archive data on a one-time or periodic basis.
- The dashboard's performance improves because there is less data
to report on.
- Optionally, you can move the archived data to an environment dedicated
to historical analysis or to a data warehouse.
Scenario two:
- You have run the monitor model for a period of time and have some
terminated instances and some active instances.
- You show the dashboard with the existing terminated and active
instances, and are satisfied with the results.
- You export the terminated and active instances into the flat files
as the backup.
- You want to show the same dashboard later, and so
you import the instances.
You can purge instance data and archive it on a one-time basis
or set it up as a scheduled service. This section focuses on purging,
archiving, exporting, and importing on a one time basis using the
administrative console or using scripts from a command line.
To set up purging and archiving as a scheduled service, refer to Managing
Monitor scheduled services. A link to the purging and archiving
topic is provided below.
This section contains the following topics: