New SQL Server Management Packs Available

New features: 

• AlwaysOn Monitoring
• Automatically discover and monitor availability groups, availability replicas, and availability databases for hundreds of computers.
• Health roll-up from availability database to availability replicas.
• Detailed knowledge with every critical health state to enable faster resolution to a problem.
• Seamless integration with Policy based management (PBM)
• Auto-discover custom PBM polices targeting AlwaysOn and database components.
• Rollup of health of policy execution within the SQL monitoring pack under extended health.
• Support for Mirroring and Replication Monitoring (only applicable to SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 version of management pack)
• Discover mirroring databases, witness, and mirroring group.
• Monitor database mirror state, database mirror witness state, and mirroring partners’ state.
• Custom diagram view to visually represent the primary and the mirrored databases.
• Approximately twenty rules to detect replication events.
• Improved Freespace monitoring with mount point support

Additional features:

• Support for Enterprise, Standard and Express editions of SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, and 2012 and 32bit, 64bit and ia64 architectures.
• Support for both simple and complex SQL Server configurations such as clustered installations, multiple instances and 32bit roles running on a 64bit OS. For full details on supported configurations refer to the guide included with the management pack.
• Discovery and monitoring of SQL Server roles such as DB Engine, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Integrations Services.
• Discovery of SQL Server components such as databases, the SQL Agent and SQL jobs.
• Views covering areas such as database free space, SQL Server related performance, SQL Server related alerts, and lists of the various SQL Server roles and components which are discovered and their related state.
• Discovery and basic monitoring for SQL Server Reporting Services and Integration Services.
• Reports for longer-term analysis of common problem areas related to SQL Server such as SQL Server lock analysis and top deadlocked databases, SQL Server service pack levels across discovered roles, user connection activity. Likewise the generic reports from the Microsoft Generic Report Library can be used against the roles and components discovered by the SQL MPs to review availability and performance across many systems and over longer periods of time.
• Role and component specific tasks which provide access to common tools, triage information, or corrective actions without needing to leave the Operations Console in most cases.
• Monitoring of databases covers database status, database free space, log shipping monitoring for both the source and destination, and transaction log free space.
• Monitoring of key SQL Server related services.
• Monitoring for persistent SPID blocking.
• Monitoring of numerous SQL Server events and performance data points. Alerts bring the issue to your attention and provide knowledge on the impact and possible resolutions.
• A low-privilege configuration for discovery and monitoring that eliminates the need for SQL Server sysadmin, dbo, db_owner, and box admin privileges

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