Log Database Cleanup (Web and Email)

Log Database Cleanup (Web and Email)

In order to resolve the issue for Web and Email products, follow the steps below.
  1. Log on to the Forcepoint Security Manager (formerly Triton).
  2. Click Settings > Reporting > Log Database.
  3. Scroll down to the particular partitions you want to Delete or Disable.
  4. Select which partitions you wish to disable/delete by marking the checkbox to the left of each.
  5. Press disable/delete as per the picture below in red.



  1. Note If attempting to delete a Disabled partition, it must be made active again first.
    1. Select the Disabled partition and click the Enable button.
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  2. Open SQL Management Studio and log in with admin credentials.
  3. Expand Databases > wslogdb70 (or similarly named for your database if not default). Right-click the database deleted from Forcepoint Security Manager and select Tasks > Detach.
  4. Select Drop Connections and Update Statistics then click OK.
  5. Locate the .mdf and .ldf files with the same name as the partition and delete them from the hard drive. To locate the files, check the path listed in Settings > Reporting > Log Database for Data and Log.
To automatically delete older database partitions:
  1. In Forcepoint Security Manager, go to Settings > Reporting > Log Database.
  2. Navigate Database Maintenance, which is below the large graph.
  3. Select Automatically delete partitions when data is older than: ___ days.
  4. Enter the Data Retention policy day amount for your organization.
  5. Press OK, then Save and Deploy. 
  6. On the next maintenance task run, any partitions with the last file matching the day after the set date will be removed.