Creating Email Log Database partitions when SQL Server is installed separately in Azure

If your deployment includes Forcepoint Security Manager in Azure and a remote SQL Server on a separate VM in Azure, you may experience an error in which Log Database fails to create a partition for the default file path C:\db\. Follow the workaround below for this issue.

  1. In SQL Server Management Studio on the SQL Server machine, right-click esglogdb76, then click Properties and Files.
  2. On the Files page, under Path, locate the MDF folders for Data and Log.

  3. Log into the Forcepoint Security Manager.
  4. Navigate to the page Settings > Reporting > Log Database.
  5. Under Database Partition Creation, under Data and Log, change the file paths to the MDF values from step 2.
  6. Click OK. The settings are saved.