Security Compliance

Delete the SEM database

This article provides information on wiping or deleting the SEM database to get a fresh start.

First published date

10/9/2018 2:47 PM

Last published date

10/9/2018 2:47 PM

Overview

This article provides information on wiping or deleting the Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager) database to get a fresh start.

Product section

Security Event Manager

Resolution

Deleting the database on SEM is not strictly needed because SEM is designed to rotate out its oldest data when the database reaches a 90% full threshold. However, if you have a need to completely wipe the database and start from scratch, please contact SolarWinds Support for further assistance.

Note: For compliance and auditing reasons, you are not able to delete the SEM database or any part of the SEM database without assistance from SolarWinds Support.

If you do want to go ahead and wipe data yourself, you will have to deploy a new SEM and discard the old one - you can use same IP and hostname.

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