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Fall Into Savings - 35% Off ELM! ELM Runs on Windows 7 Last Month's Administrator Rights Curiosity Poll Results November Curiosity Poll - ELM and SQL The "ELM 411" - Improved DB Pruning Holiday Closure Schedule

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Fall Into Savings with 35% Off ELM - Through November 30, 2009

Now through the end of November all ELM Products and Agents are 35% off! Whether you are a new customer that is considering ELM as your event log management and server monitoring solution or if you have been a long time user of ELM and are looking to add on or upgrade - now is the perfect opportunity!

Ready to get started? Click here for more details or to contact a sales representative. Don't delay - this is a limited time offer!

ELM Runs on Windows 7
Yes, the new operating system has finally been released and response so far has been very positive. The IT world has been waiting for the next generation of operating system to replace XP after Vista never really took flight. It appears it is finally here.

In our September newsletter poll we asked "Will your company eventually migrate to Windows 7?" and a total 69% of responses indicated that yes they would be at some point.

We have been running Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate in our lab here at TNT Software since the week it was released (and a few employees on their desktops as well!) and we are happy to announce that ELM products successfully run on and monitor Windows 7.

Stay tuned for complete details and updates on ELM with the new Windows 7 operating system in coming issues of the Newsletter!

Last Month's Administrator Rights Curiosity Poll Results

Convenience vs. Policy - Last month we asked, Do you normally logon and work with administrator permissions? And here's what our readers had to say:

Security policy and procedures aside, it appears that it boils down to one golden rule for most - "Time is Money."

For details of who voted where on this curiosity poll click here.

November Curiosity Poll - ELM and SQL

Last month Microsoft made available the SQL 2008 R2 CTP, and the last SQL 2000 Service Pack was in 2005. With this steady move away from SQL 2000, we are curious if you are moving too.

Are you limited to running ELM with a SQL 2000 database?

Additional information on SQL Server Lifecycle from Microsoft

SQL 2000 is on Extended Support: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=2852

SQL 2005 Support Lifecycle: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=2855

SQL 2008 Support Lifecycle: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=13165

Microsoft also just announced that it will soon deliver a third Community Technical Preview (CTP) pre-release of the upcoming SQL Server 2008 R2 database server. The final version is expected sometime in early-to-mid 2010.

The "ELM 411" - Improved Database Pruning

We all like to be more efficient - and like our systems to run at peak efficiency as well. As auditing and data volumes have increased, your ELM database has probably experienced a corresponding boost in size. This in-turn creates more work for the archiving and pruning tasks ELM performs.

To address this, the current release of ELM 5.5.141 has made improvements to the pruning technique it uses. Instead of one copy and delete operation, ELM now uses an Incremental Pruning approach.

ELM Pre-Build 141	ELM Build 141
Single Copy	Incremental Copy

If archiving, ELM will bulk copy 5000 rows to the Archive database, and then delete 5000 rows from the Primary database. Then it will process the next 5000 rows, repeating until all older data is removed from the Primary database.

ELM Pre-Build 141	ELM Build 141
Single Delete	Incremental Delete

If just pruning, ELM will delete increments of 5000 rows at a time. This results in much shorter blocking, and smoother operation of your ELM Server and event collection.

If you haven't already, we highly encourage you to update to the latest release of ELM to take advantage of the new efficiencies in data management. Click Here to Download Now!

 

We hope that you found this article informative and wish you continued success with your ELM deployment!

NOTE: All ELM 411 articles are written based on ELM Version 5.5 and instructions may not be accurate for previous ELM Versions. If you would like assistance upgrading to ELM 5.5 so you can use these tips - please contact support@tntsoftware.com.

Share your own ELM tips!
Have a tip or trick with our ELM products you'd like to share with our newsletter subscribers? Send your ideas and any applicable screen shots to info@tntsoftware.com with "ELM 411" in the subject line. We'll take a look and if usable you'll see it published here in the ELM 411 section of upcoming newsletters!

TNT Software Holiday Closure Schedule

As we approach the holiday season we all will enjoy some time away from work. Below you will find the holiday closure schedule for TNT Software.

Date	Holiday
November 26-27, 2009 December 24-25, 2009 December 31, 2009 (closing at noon) January 1, 2010	Thanksgiving Christmas New Years Eve New Years Day

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