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The Schedule Snapshots section allows you to choose the best times to collect data from your SQL Server instance.
By default, snapshots are scheduled to run at 3:00 am every Sunday morning (using the local time of the computer hosting the IDERA SQL Secure Repository). The first snapshot is taken at the first scheduled snapshot collection time. You can manually take a snapshot at any time by right-clicking the SQL Server instance in the Explore Permissions view and then selecting Take Snapshot from the context menu.
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Schedule Snapshots window actions
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Keep snapshot for [number] days before allowing them to be groomed. | Specify the number of days that you want to store snapshots in the SQL Secure Repository. Specify a number between 1 and 10000 days. By default, this value is set to 60 days. |
Enable Scheduling | Select this option to enable the audit snapshot schedule. If this option is disabled, you have to take snapshots manually. |
Change | Click this button to change the default snapshot collection schedule (3:00 am every Sunday morning). A new window opens where you can specify:
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SQL Server Agent Status
Additionally, this section of the wizard allows you to see the status of your SQL Server Agent. Take into account that SQL Secure uses the SQL Server Agent for data collection and grooming. This Agent is located in the SQL Server hosting the Repository Database. You can see in this section whether the Agent status is Started or Stopped.
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In this same view, you can also see the list of snapshots and baselines for a specific SQL Server. To see this information select your required server from the Audited SQL Servers tree and SQL Secure displays an Audit History section on the respective Server Summary. For more information about this view, go to View single server summary.
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