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Hello.
I am a user of another monitoring product that by default already has a series of already defined items and limits, which we do not have to worry about identifying them. We just need to select what we want to monitor. As for example: (Locks, connected users, memories, size of bases and etc.)
In the case of PRTG, I read that the process is done using remote queries. Does this mean that I will have to tell the querys to stop collecting the information I need?
Thank you.
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Hello sandro,
thank you for your KB-Post.
Well, if you're speaking of Microsoft SQL, there are two approaches available:
This can be done with the multiple Microsoft SQL Server XXXX sensors. Here's the complete list:
These sensors will list several metrics, polled directly over WMI. This is interesting for checking up the server's usage/performance but you need to define limits/thresholds of your own for alerting. Since every environment is different, we can't hard-code alerts.
This can be done with a specific sensor for any supported SQL Version:
This sensor however requires you to create a SQL script-file that the sensor will run after connecting to the host. This can do essentially anything that is possible with an SQL query, checking replications, tasks, uptime and so on. But since again each deployment greatly varies, we're not able to create something "standard" that will fit everyone.
However, this gives you immense flexibility. I encourage you to check with your DBA and explain what can be done, then ask about the relevant metrics, afterwards all you will need to do is to deploy his suggested queries as sensors.
Best Regards,
Luciano Lingnau [Paessler Support]
Created on Jan 30, 2018 11:57:30 AM by
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