MySQL Intravue FAQs

The MySQL folder has gigabytes of data, how to I make it smaller?

Can I export events from the event log

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The MySQL folder has gigabytes of data, how to I make it smaller?

Your C:\\MySQL\\data folder may contains files that start with "mysql-bin", like mysql-bin.0000005.

There files are used by mysql for transactions when Windows' resources are low in a feature not used by IntraVUE.

You should comment out two lines in the c:\\MySql\\my.cnf file. It is usually best to open WordPad and then use File/Open to edit the file.

Put a # sign in front of the two line as shown below.

# log-bin=mysql-bin
# binlog_format=mixed

Now Stop the mysql service using the Windows Service dialog. This will cause the autoip i-server service to also stop.

Delete all the mysql-bin.0000xx files in the mysql\data folder.

Start the mysql and autoip i-server services.

The files will not be created anymore.

Note: Starting with Intravue version 2.1.0c5, these lines are commented out of the my.cnf file if you chose to replace mysql.


Can I export events from the event log

You may wish to look at Intravue events in a text file or spreadsheet.

You can do so from a DOS command prompt.

It is easiest if you run the DOS command prompt in the c:\\mysql\\bin folder.

The basic syntax to show the results on the console is:
mysql intravue < filename.sql

The basic syntax to save the results in a file (redirect) named save_file.txt is:
mysql intravue < filename.sql > save_file.txt



You can create several .sql files to get different events from intravue.


- To get all events sorted by IP address, create a new .sql file with notepad having one line


select RPAD(EventId,5," "), RPAD(Occurred,21," "), RPAD(IpAddress,16," "), Description from event ORDER BY IpAddress, EventId ;

The RPAD forces the results to have a certain number of spaces.

- To get all events into a CSV file (don't use the redirect command line for this one)

select * from event INTO OUTFILE 'events.csv' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' LINES TERMINATED BY '\\r\\n';

Note: the csv file will be saved in the mysql\\data\\intravue folder.


If you are familiar with mysql there is a lot more you can do.

In the future, it will be easier to get information like this from the Intravue user interface.