Data Storage - Data Stores


ServerAssist uses a relational data store to store captured performance data, details of archived events, and alerts. This can either be an internal data store, managed entirely by the application, or any OLE DB compatible relational store, such as an SQL Server or Oracle RDBMS. By default, ServerAssist uses its own internal data store.

Data Store Manager

The Data Store Manager can be used to switch from the internal data store to either a new local instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express or to a manually configured external data store. When creating an external data store manually, script files for common database systems are included in this documentation, and are available as separate files in the resource kit.

When using an external data store, it is perfectly possible to share one data store between multiple ServerAssist components. All data is keyed by system name, and so is always uniquely associated with a particular system.

File Locations

By default, the Jet database files reside in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Aldebaran\ServerAssist on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, and in C:\ProgramData\Aldebaran\ServerAssist on Windows Vista, Windows 7 and  Windows Server 2008. The file that underlies the data store is named ServerAssist.mdb.