WhatsUp Gold System Tasks Library (SETTINGS > Libraries > System Tasks) 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 Analysis.
  • NFArchive Database Backup. Performs a database backup of the NFArchive SQL database, which stores archived data for Network Traffic Analysis.
  • WhatsUp Database Backup. Performs a database backup of the SQL database, which stores data for WhatsUp Gold and any plug-in product except for Network Traffic Analysis.
  • 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 Virtual Monitoring database with the central device inventory.
Important: At this time, task pass and fail events are not logged in the WhatsUp Gold log reports. While errors are logged for all non-database backup tasks, they are not for database backup tasks.