Introduction In a previous blog post, I did a T-SQL script reading Audit files to send emails with valuable information about instance changes. In this one, you will see how to get nice emails from critical errors or specific events occurring on the instance using the ErrorLog. A common best practice for any DBA is to configure SQL Server Agent…
While supporting since several years ODAs of different generations and versions, we faced time to time some hardware alerts sent back by the ILOM. However all of them are not related to real hardware issues and are false positive. To get rid of them the solution is to reset them manually. When an hardware error occurs the first reaction is…
I am currently managing at one of my customer a monitoring project that concerns SQL Server instances and SCOM (System Center Operation Manager). The project includes many instances, more or less 50, divided in two environment (Production and Test) and different versions of SQL Server as 2008, 2012 and 2014. The defined target was to create two groups of instances,…
