This package is located in the Dataminer/tools folder in Dataminer version 9.6 and above.
Besides the obvious, delete all DMA data, what exactly does this package do and what are its use cases for a customer? For MYSQL or Cassandra?
This package can be used to prepare the destination server for a DMA restoration. Executing this package will delete all data on the DMA (elements, protocols,...) and also the database. This will work both for MySQL and Cassandra. Do note that prior to 9.6.0 CU1 main release and 9.6.5 feature release there was an issue that it only cleaned up Cassandra, however in the recent DataMiner versions this is fixed.
Hi Laurens, Ryan,
Please keep in mind that the current delete package does not remove:
- Profile parameters, profile definitions, profile instances (C:\Skyline DataMiner\Profiles)
- Dashboards (new dashboard app) (C:\Skyline DataMiner\Dashboards)
I double checked against DMA version 10.0.7.0-9247
Definitely also check this dojo post.
Laurens thank you for your answer here. It seems that the failover seeds are not cleaned up using this and will cause issues, i believe, when re-configuring the failover with cassandra having residual seeds information in the system.