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As the gatekeeper of the Advisory Conditions Packs at SentryOne, I sometimes receive questions about changing or turning off conditions in a pack to better serve our customers' unique requirements. While we strive to provide conditions that are useful to all clients, we understand that in the world of SQL Server, "it…
I was looking through SQL Sentry blog posts and realized that, while we have several posts around creating Advisory Conditions, I couldn't find one that covers most everything. My plan for this post is to cover the whole kit and kaboodle, but I'll be referring to the existing blogs so that this does not become War and…
SQL Sentry comes preconfigured with well over a hundred alerting conditions for failures, offline servers, long running queries, and more. You may also be aware of SentryOne’s Advisory Conditions. This advanced alerting and response system allows you to truly customize the product to respond to any condition with complex…
SentryOne Advisory Conditions provide a powerful and flexible solution for monitoring environments across a diverse range of situations. This post focuses on the available actions and alerting options for Advisory Conditions. As shown below, the options for available actions are as robust as the conditions themselves. To…
SentryOne has some of the most robust and dynamic alerting capabilities in our market. Out of the box, we provide a number of options for responding to virtually any type of condition, and these are by no means limited to sending an email: Still, email is one of the more popular options, and we get the occasional question…
Custom Conditions provide an option called Trigger Threshold. I sometimes see conditions created with this option when it isn't necessary, so I'm going to demonstrate how it works. Figure 1: Trigger Threshold Option for Custom Conditions The Trigger Threshold defines the amount of time a condition must be true before a…
If you've ever created, or even looked at a Custom Condition, you may have noticed an option labeled, "Maximum Instance Count." Since we're in the SQL Server world, you possibly assumed (as I once did), that this is related to instances of the Database Engine, and you'd be incorrect in your assumption (as I was). Maximum…
In the latest SQL Sentry Custom Conditions Pack, a new condition named 'Common Criteria Compliance' Enabled was added. This setting, as its name implies, assists in meeting international computer security compliance standards known as Common Criteria. The setting is found on the Security page of Server Properties: Common…
If you are not familiar with Custom Conditions in SQL Sentry, we'll be doing a deep-dive into the Boolean operations which power the checks. Be warned, this is about to get a little nerdy. Table of Contents * Single Step Conditions * Two Step Conditions * Boolean Operators* And * Or * Not And * Not Or * Multiple Step…
I got positives when we have one replica with multiple disks in one data store. The description says This condition evaluates to True when multiple Availability Replicas from the same Availability Group have their VMDKs in the same VMware Datastore. But it looks to me that it is enough to have multiple VMDKs in the same…
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