ODW should be truncated by Opsview. See the retention setting in Opsview
web frontend at [Server]->[System Preferences]->[ODW].

-- 
kind regards, Henry

On Do, 2010-08-26 at 09:47 -0400, Ingo Hoffmann wrote:
> Thank you so much Emilio.
> 
> I think I'll need to rotate ODW by hand. Any ideas?
> 
>  
> 
> From:[email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emilio
> Scalise
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:44 AM
> To: Opsview Users
> Subject: Re: [opsview-users] 3.7.2 upgrade issues
> 
> 
>  
> 
> The runtime db is the one that the nagios ndo plugin uses to store
> check data from the nagios.log file. The opsview web interface for
> example uses it to display status tables. Nagvis uses also the runtime
> db.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> ODW is a long term storage for the runtime data. Periodically, a cron
> perl script populate the odw database taking data from the runtime
> db.You can use odw to query the history of your check results for
> example.
> 
> Opsview takes care to rotate the runtime db data and to trim the odw
> tables according to the data retention settings provided.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Bye,
> 
> 
> Emilio
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 2010/8/26 Ingo Hoffmann <[email protected]>
> 
> Can anyone tell me what runs on runtime and ODW database?
> I never got ODW and what it means and I think I'm wasting tons of disk
> space
> on those.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ingo
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> 
> 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ingo
> Hoffmann
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:28 AM
> To: Opsview Users
> Subject: Re: [opsview-users] 3.7.2 upgrade issues
> 
> Not cool :(
> I'll see if I can schedule a maintenance window to do this.
> 
> Thanks Stu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stu
> Teasdale
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:00 AM
> To: Opsview Users
> Subject: Re: [opsview-users] 3.7.2 upgrade issues
> 
> Opsview benefits greatly from file_per_table. If you do the truncate
> you'll lose whatever hasn't been successfully sent to ODW. In my case
> I
> didn't care, we purely use opsview for alerting.
> 
> Personally I'd shutdown opsview completely, truncate the table, change
> mysql to use file_per_table, then dump and restore all my databases.
> This may well take a long time though, and will result in data loss.
> 
> I wonder if any opsview people have less time consuming
> and painful suggestions?
> 
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:40:40AM -0400, Ingo Hoffmann wrote:
> > Same thing here Stu, but I don't have file_per_table setup.
> > When truncating, how much history will I loose?
> > This table is about 14GB and I'm sure I can forget about 6 months of
> it.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stu
> Teasdale
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 8:32 AM
> > To: Opsview Users
> > Subject: Re: [opsview-users] 3.7.2 upgrade issues
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:02:45AM -0400, Ingo Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > When I upgraded to 3.7.2, the upgrade process took about 9 hours
> to
> > complete
> > > due to a big database and now I'm seeing the web interface out of
> sync
> with
> > > the notifications I'm getting.
> > >
> > > How can I shrink the database and make the web interface on sync
> again?
> >
> > I had similar issues, connected to the nagios_servicechecks table in
> > runtime ending up enormous (a bug in an earlier 3.7 release I
> believe).
> > I ended up simply truncating the table and restarting everything,
> but
> > this could easily result in a loss of  check history. Out of
> interest
> > have you configured mysql to use file_per_table?
> >
> > Stu
> >
> > --
> > From the prompt of Stu Teasdale
> >
> > Never explain.  Your friends do not need it and your enemies will
> never
> > believe you anyway.
> >               -- Elbert Hubbard
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> From the prompt of Stu Teasdale
> 
> You will lose an important tape file.
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