As many of you may already know, Wavecrest’s Cyfin and CyBlock products include a Data Manager.  The Data Manager compresses logfile data. This reduces report-generation time by more than 95 percent (compared to methods that generate reports by reading logfiles directly). We highly recommended that you use the Data Manager.

There are two database setups in the Data Manager with the installation of Wavecrest products: Dashboard and Mass Storage.

Dashboard (High-level) Database. This database is designed to store high-level data that are used to generate sophisticated summary-level trending and comparison charts on the Dashboard.

Mass Storage (Low-level) Database. This highly scalable database is designed to store huge amounts of detailed, ‘low-level’ Web-use data. The reports that are supported by this database include audit detail reports that provide every URL visited by a user, category or domain.

The Dashboard database and the Mass Storage database data are stored in your installation path by default. You can move the path of these databases to a drive that has more disk space, which you will need as the databases grow. The Logfiles – Data Manager – Settings screen gives you the option to change the path for both databases.

Note: When changing the path for the Mass Storage database .war files, the product will move the .war files to the  new location for you. With the Dashboard database, the Superview folder (C:\Program Files\Wavecrest\Cyfin\wc\cf\db\Superview) will need to be manually copied to the new location.