This document provides an overview of files and directories to exclude from Antivirus software in case of performance issues within BVQ.

The following files & directories should be excluded in the Antivirus Software for the BVQ Server:

BVQ Core

%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\bvq-server\data\*
%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\bvq-server\logs\*
%ProgramFiles%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\grafana\*

BVQ Server

This directory stores caching, configuration, temporary & scanner files of the BVQ Server.

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%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\bvq-server\data\                  → besides the subfolders below, this folder stores generated report (*.bvqreport)
%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\bvq-server\data\alerting-data     → log files of the BVQ Alerting feature
%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\bvq-server\data\bvq_cache         → Files for the BVQ Server cache
%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\bvq-server\data\mongodb_backup    → DB backup directory (when using the BVQ internal DB backup feature)
%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\bvq-server\data\notification-data → Directory to store files when using custom Notification within BVQ
%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\bvq-server\data\scanner-data      → Configuration & temporary scanning data for the systems monitored by BVQ. The temporary files will be deleted, when the scanned data was written successfully to the database.
%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\bvq-server\data\support-zip       → Directory to store BVQ Support Package files

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%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\bvq-server\logs\                  → This directory contains the log files for the BVQ Server.
%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\grafana\                          → This directory stores application-relevant data for Grafana. (e.g. Dashboards, Plugins, Grafana database, etc.). See https://www.grafana.com for further details.
%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\bvq-mongodb\db\                   → The data directory for the BVQ database to store collection, index and log files. By default BVQ uses subdirectories for each DB and the BVQ database ist stored in the \bvq subdirectory.
%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-core\bvq-mongodb\logs\                 → This directory contains log files for the BVQ database,
%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-server\data\mongodb_backup             → If the internal DB backup feature of BVQ is not used, please exclude the destination folder of a mongodump command/script (e.g. D:\DbBackup)

BVQ GUI cache, log files & profiles

BVQ GUI

%AppData%\SVA\BVQ\                               → This directory is used to store GUI caching files, log files & database connection profiles.
                                                 The Files are stored per user.
                                                 These directories must be excluded for each user, using the BVQ expert GUI on the BVQ server
%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\bvq-gui\                   → This directory is used to store GUI general configuration files

Important
By Default BVQ is installed on the drive partition C:\ on Microsoft Windows operating systems.
If you change directories in the installer / update process to a different partition, please remember to change directory & file pathes in this document to your BVQ installation.
Wildcards (*) refer to recursive subdirectories & files.

Directories & file excludes for Antivirus software

BVQ Server

BVQ GUI cache, log files & profiles