Applying System Tasks

WhatsUp Gold System Tasks Library (SETTINGS menu > Libraries > WhatsUp Gold System Tasks Library) includes built-in task types you either run or copy, refine, and run to perform common and recurring system administration tasks.

Note: Not all WhatsUp Gold System Tasks can be copied and modified.

System Tasks Library ships with the following task types:

• Alert Center DB Maintenance. Cleans the AlertCenterItems and AlertCenterLog tables.
• APM Hourly Availability Rollup. Rolls application availability data.
• Defrag Performance Tables. Manages hourly roll-up of application instances, component instances, and group instances availability data.
• Delete Daily Rollup Data. Delete daily roll up data.
• Diagnostics and Usage. Sending telemetry data helps us improve our products and services.
• Dynamic Group Membership Updater. Calls the SP which updates the devices in dynamic groups for the PivotDeviceToDynamicGroup table.
• NetFlow Database Backup. Performs a database backup of the NetFlow SQL database, which stores data for Network Traffic Analyzer.
• NFArchive Database Backup. Performs a database backup of the NFArchive SQL database, which stores archived data for Network Traffic Analyzer.
• WhatsUp Database Backup. Performs a database backup of the Network Performance Monitor SQL database, which stores data for Network Performance Monitor and any plug-in product except for Network Traffic Analyzer.
• Group Updater. Update device groups.
• Purge Expired Action Activity Data. Clean expired data related to Action Manager.
• Purge Expired APM Data. Clean expired data and configurations.
• Purge Log Tables. Cleans various log tables.
• Purge Report Data. Cleans all reports tables.
• Roll up Hourly Raw Statistical Data. Clean up hourly raw data store used for reporting.
• Roll up Raw Statistical Data. Clean up raw data store used for reporting.
• Trim WindowsSystemLog table. WindowsSystemLog database maintenance.
• Virtualization Sync. Synchronizes WhatsVirtual database with the central device inventory.

Important: At this time, task pass and fail events are not logged in the Network Performance Monitor log reports. While errors are logged for all non-database backup tasks, they are not for database backup tasks.

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