Powershell Ping
I have a script that goes out and pings all of my SQL Servers. This script, right now, simply makes a connection to the SQL Server instance. If I am able to connect I call it good and if not I send out...
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Not long ago I did a post about pinging the interface of a server since you may encounter a problem connecting to WMI even if a server is up. The article is at...
View ArticlePowershell Ping (Cont)
Earlier this month I posted about SQL Ping Servers Script that I was working on to notify different groups if a server was down or just SQL Server was down or just the agent was down. Well here is the...
View ArticleSQL Server Health Report
Yesterday I posted about a great article that I found on how to use Powershell to create an excel file and also use SMO to get information about SQL Server. I am working on a report that I will have...
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PowerShell SQL Server Health Check Script
OK so I think that I have everything I want in my script to check on the health of my SQL Servers. I will run this at least once a day and more if needed. I hope that this will help some people out and...
View ArticleAnother New Language
My team is going to be developing a new application that will handle all of our monitoring. Currently that includes the monitoring of Sybase Servers, Oracle Instances, and MSSQL Servers. We will also...
View ArticlePowershell Gui
A while back, about a year ago, I wrote some custom scripts to monitor all of our SQL Server instances for errors. I have a driver file that has all the information that the script needs in order to...
View ArticleSQL Server Monitoring
I am getting back into writing my monitoring application in powershell and I have made some progress over the last few days. I have figured out my issue with getting the backup dates and times inserted...
View ArticleDB Mirror Alerts
While I was back east at the home office I was asked to look into a way to monitor DB Mirroring. I had a couple thoughts on this as I know that I can look at the status of the mirror via SMO using...
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