SQL Server Transaction Log Filling Up with HP SIM

[Tim McGue]

Anyone else seeing their transaction log fill up for the HP SIM database?

Tim

[James Kennedy_4 · Accepted solution]

OH yeah, had this problem big time for a few weeks, was awful.

In my case, we were using ARCserve to backup the SQL Database at night, which should normally truncate the logs. In fact, it made things much worse, and the log files were enourmous, and would fill up the entire drive, and the system would crash.

Here's what I did to resolve, this keeps my Insight log to about 3-10 MB, works great:

In SQL Enterprise Manager, right click and go to the properties of Insight_v1_0, the SIM Database. In the Options tab, change the Recovery Model to 'Simple', and also make sure the check box for 'auto-shrink' is checked.

The other thing I did was create a SQL Maintanance Plan that runs daily. This job backs-up just the SIM Database log file and because the database is set to 'Simple' should truncate the logs considerably.

Put these together, and I've been much happier. My log files were in the 8 GB range before, now they are 2 MB :)

[Tim McGue]

Thanks for the response and the details. I am going to follow your suggestions. I'll also let HP know as well.

[andy steven]

mine grow to 49GB.

this should fix it



http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=423686