User`s guide

Section 3: Advanced Setup
You may want to consider:
1. Deleting one or more demonstration PDBs.
At some sites, copies of the demonstration PDBs are used for practice or testing; for instance, testing what a new report
would look like when the production PDB does not have enough data to generate a report that looks good. At some sites
a demonstration PDB is used when the active PDB must be some other PDB than the one that is to be used. (Some
operations cannot run on the active PDB.) At other sites, one or more of the demonstration PDBs are never used. You
can delete one or more of these PDBs if you have no need for them.
In case you change your mind later, back up the PDB that you will delete.
To delete the PDB, follow this path from the IT Service Vision main menu:
Administration -> Manage PDBs -> select the PDB -> right mouse click -> Delete PDB -> Yes ->
OK
2. Combining one or more PDBs.
You may have one or more PDBs for data from one collector and also one or more PDBs for data from other collectors.
There are advantages to having data from different collectors in different PDBs:
You can back up, process, reduce, and report on the data in parallel.
You are less likely to run into file size problems (UNIX has a 2-gigabyte filesize limitation).
It may be easier to handle sites with different time zones.
It may be easier to handle multiple users needing update access at the same time.
It may be easier to manage space.
There are also advantages to having data from different collectors in the same PDB:
If you want to generate a report on data in more than one table, it is more convenient to have the tables in the
same PDB.
If you want to generate reports interactively, you can work with one PDB.
You can copy tables (including the data in the tables) into a combined PDB at any time that using the same PDB would
be convenient. You can use the same method to copy tables (including the data) into separate PDBs at any time that
using different PDBs would be convenient.
To combine tables into one PDB:
a. Decide which PDB to use for the combined PDB.
You can use an existing PDB or a new one. If you decide to use a new one, you can create it (without tables) by
following this path from the main menu:
Administration -> Create PDB - Wizard -> follow wizard except omit table selection