Zenworks patch management and databases

Are there any known issues of Zenworks patch management deployment and corruption of Zenworks database? What would be best practices of Patch Managment and the Zenworks database?

Originally Posted by craig_wilson
Keep the Data Retention for Dashboard data low.
(No more than 30-60 days.)
Otherwise this table can grow very large and cause issues.
I believe 11.3 will have some redesign that will reduce the overhead
with that table and perhaps allow for longer retentions.
On 8/22/2013 10:46 AM, sflegnc wrote:
>
> Are there any known issues of Zenworks patch management deployment and
> corruption of Zenworks database? What would be best practices of Patch
> Managment and the Zenworks database?
>
>
Craig Wilson - MCNE, MCSE, CCNA
Novell Knowledge Partner
Novell does not officially monitor these forums.
Suggestions/Opinions/Statements made by me are solely my own.
These thoughts may not be shared by either Novell or any rational human.
And if you have say, 4,000 devices or more, I'd suggest even setting it down to 1 day or 7 days at the max. And set it WHEN you setup ZCM, not afterwards, because the database purge/changing isn't optimized properly (at least for Oracle).
Even with 7 days for us, it takes forever to delete a workstation/device along with a slew of other things. But Novell is aware of these things, and hopefully 11.3 will address most of the speed/performance issues.

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