Solarwinds Job Sceduler not Running

I had an incident where the Job Scheduler would not run any scans new or old. The service kept crashing. Repairs would not fix it and eventually I found this:

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Error “The job scheduler database file is corrupt. The SWJobSchedulerSvc service has been shutdown until the database is fixed.” occurs

In the files placed on your server during an Orion NPM installation, SolarWinds has provided a blank database file (JobEngine35 - Blank.sdf) that can be used to replace your existing, corrupted JobEngine35.sdf file.

The following procedure completes this replacement.

To replace a corrupt job scheduler database file:

1. Log on to your Orion server using an account with administrative rights.
2. Click Start > All Programs > SolarWinds Orion > Advanced Features > Orion Service Manager.
3. Click Shutdown Everything.
   Note: It may take a few minutes to stop all services.
4. Make a backup copy of your current JobEngine35.sdf, and rename it as JobEngine35.old.
   Notes:
   • The default location of this file on Windows Server 2008 is C:\ProgramData\SolarWinds\JobEngine\Data\.
   • The default location of this file on Windows Server 2003 is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SolarWinds\JobEngine\Data\.
5. Make a backup copy of “JobEngine35 – Blank.sdf” and rename it as “JobEngine35.sdf”.
   Notes:
   • The default location of this file on Windows Server 2008 is C:\ProgramData\SolarWinds\JobEngine\Data\.
   • The default location of this file on Windows Server 2003 is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SolarWinds\JobEngine\Data\.
6. Right-click JobEngine.sdf, as renamed in the previous step.
7. Click Properties.
8. On the General tab, confirm that the Read-only attribute is cleared, and then click OK.
9. On your Orion server, click Start > All Programs > SolarWinds Orion > Advanced Features > Orion Service Manager.
10. Click Start Everything.
    Note: It may take a few minutes to start all services.

This article applies to:
All Orion NPM versions