purge or delete or re-initilaise sbsmonitoring database (sbsmonitoring.mdf, sbsmonitoring.ldf)

Hi:

In the SBS console, under Monitoring, run the setup wizard.  This will clear the history so you will not have comparisons in the reports, but it will lower the space consumed.

How big is your system partion?  1.5 GB is not "huge" for this database.

Where is 'Monitoring' located on the SBS2008 console ?

Sorry, keep getting the versions mixed....

You still are nowhere near any limits on these files.  If your system partition is lacking free space, either the partition is too small or there are other things using the space.

Here are two articles that explain it.  Note, Please read them both to the end.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2009/07/14/sbs-2008-console-may-take-too-long-to-display-alerts-and-security-statuses-display-not-available-or-crash.aspx

and

http://www.thirdtier.net/2010/03/sbs-2008-monitoring-database-fills-to-capacity/

The customer's C: drive is quite small - hence the issue.

I read all three articles - have seen this about updateSBSMonitoring.sql  before.

I ran updateSBSMonitoring.sql per the procedure.

It did NOT decrease the database size - it INCREASED IT !.  And the log file size TOO ! (to over a gig).

Is this the result you expected ?

Not what I expected and not sure what that is about, but you will be fighting this forever.  Probably better to increase the size of the system partition.

Also, "run as administrator" either wirdirstat or treesizepro to see what else is consuming space on that system.

And yes - Windirstat is very useful.  But that is how I identified this size issue in the first place...:)

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