Monitoring sql consulting

If you have a working powershell script that returns a numerical value and you want to read/use that value with PRTG. There are two API Formats that you can use, regardless of scripting language:

The "XML" output, as exemplified here(output):

            <prtg>
            <result>
            <channel>First channel</channel>
            <value>10</value>
            </result>
            <text>This is the sensors optional text</text>
            </prtg>

The "standard" format, as exemplified here(code):

Write-Host "10:This is the sensors optional text"
exit 0

For more information, see PRTG Manual: Custom Sensors

Please note that if your query provides a numerical result directly, you should also be able to use the built-in SQL v2 sensors: PRTG Manual: Microsoft SQL v2 Sensor

You can find examples for the SQL Sensors here:

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• SQL Sensor to Return Positive Result if No Return?
• How can I monitor strings from an SQL database and show a sensor status depending on it?

Best Regards,
Luciano Lingnau [Paessler Support]

You actually could just create a SQL-Query script and use the SQL-Sensors to execute the script. This would be way easier then having a PowerShell executing an Invoke-SQLCMD to grab the data - you actually just add to the complexity of the sensor.

Of course - I don't know the whole scenario, but from what you wrote it seems to be a bit complex using PowerShell to execute a SQL query. I did monitoring of database table values to gain statistics and even alerts. You can do a lot using the SQL sensors that execute SQL scripts/queries.

Regards

Florian Rossmark

www.it-admins.com