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SQL Monitoring

Jens1977 over 3 years ago

Hi!

We use SAM solarwinds. I want to set up a simple SQL monitoring and do not want to use the template Appinsight SQL .. What I want to monitor is if the SQL server service is running on the server and then I want to know if the database on the server is running or not. Very simple then. What is required, account? How do I set it up in SAM?

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Seashore over 3 years ago +3

To monitor that the SQL Engine service is running you only need normal windows server credentials. Then I should ran some SQL query also to see that its actually responding also. What the ask is up to…

0 Seashore over 3 years ago in reply to Jens1977

So, you should only use THIS template on SQL servers, of no SQL instance is found the component will be down.

If you have this template on all your SQL servers and they have SQL installed as a default instance, you should not be needing to change it.

I try to learn that in orion monitoring is one thing and alerting another. Just because you monitor something it does not automatically mean you will get an alert. BUT if you have one alert rule that alerts if a component id down, then you will get an alert if you apply this template and it does not find the service.
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0 Jens1977 over 3 years ago in reply to Seashore

I want this monitoring on all my SQL servers but they can have different instance names. Could i use this template?
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0 Seashore over 3 years ago in reply to Jens1977

Yes. Assign the template to all SQL servers and edit the once that have different instance names. ("Override template")
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