Overview of Database Applications 123n The amount of free disk space remaining on your PC for datacollection to the database.n The location of HTML reports.From this dialog box, you can launch the following operations:n Create a new database to write data from the network to.Unless you want to get rid of the contents of a database entirely, youshould always use the Clean Database application instead of deleting adatabase and creating a new one.You may already have a valid Traffix Manager 3.0 database and wantto purge it of data while preserving discovered agents, topologyinformation, user-assigned attributes, event rules and report instances.See “Clean databases” on page 124 for more information.n Select an existing database (other than the database currently in use)as the current database.n Copy, delete and move databases.CAUTION: You should never move or copy a database using ordinary fileoperations; for example, Windows NT Explorer. You should use the MoveDatabase and Copy Database features from the Traffix Control Panelinstead.n Change the location of the current destination of HTML reports.n Import Database. You can import a database that has been created byeither Traffix Manager 2.0 NT or the dbexport utility in Traffix Manager2.0 (NT and UNIX).DatabaseMaintenanceIn this dialog box, you can view the following:n The status of the Traffix Server.n The location of the database which the Traffix Server is writing datato.n The current size of the Traffix Manager database. Data from theCollector, Reporter and Event List is stored in this database. You canspecify the maximum amount of disk space which is used to store thisdata in this dialog box.n The amount of free disk space remaining on your PC for datacollection to the database.
