Disabling Nightly DB maint.

Question

Is there a hidden way to completely disable the Nightly DB maintenance so that we can do it manually when someone is there to watch it?  I understand there is a significant ammount of things that this routine does, and thats why I would like someone to watch the system while its happening.

tdanner · Answer

Here's a hack: if you get some executable that does nothing when run with the arguments “-Archive NetPerfMon-Nightly.Maintenance” (\windows\system32\cscript.exe seems to work for this), you could copy it to \program files\solarwinds\orion and name it Database-Maint.exe (keep a backup of the real one so you can run it manually), then netperfmonservice will run that every night instead of real maintenance.

FormerMember · Answer

It can't be disabled.  You can run it manually and watch it.  Then let it run on its own, where it won't have much to do.