AlwaysOn Availability Group Monitoring/Cluster
With the "Availability Group Preferred Replica" metric, if we have multiple Clusters with multiple Groups and the preferred replica is split between two nodes for "load balancing"; does this mean I...
View ArticleDM and Dashboard--OK servers in Maintenance Mode
Hi A few months ago I investigated the use of the DM Dashboard for, well, management dashboard reporting. This proved to be unworkable due to the dashboard showing most of my "ok" servers in...
View ArticleHow to setup alert based on difference between two custom counters?
We have two custom counters (current_workers_count and max_workers_count) and we would like to send alert only when one counter has higher value than other.For example: current_workers_count will...
View ArticleSQLdm Management Service High Memory
Hi all,Recently our SQLdm Management Service has been consuming all the memory on the server and is causing the collection service to crash. We recently upgraded our server from 8 to 16GB of RAM but...
View ArticleOS Metrics OLE changes mysteriously back to WMI
Is there any reason why I'm seeing the OS metrics option 'mysteriously' change back from OLE to WMI option? We're pretty sure nobody changed it and now it's back to WMI... Any help would be...
View ArticleHow to log all queries
Are there any settings in SQLdm that log ALL queries that were run? I would like to see all UPDATES and INSERTS that ran against a particular table in the past week. Looking at the Query Monitor...
View Articleadding server in untrusted domain with firewalling
Hello,I want to add a managed SQL Server in a untrusted Domain. Between both domains a firewall is active.A Connection test at the end of "Add Servers" wizard fails.I can ping the target machine from...
View ArticleSQL Memory Utilization
I am new to SQL DM. Added few of our servers to Monitor and on one of the servers there is an Critical Alert "OS Memory Used is 92%" . When I check the real time data majority of the memory is...
View Articleweb console 10.2 instances blank
Hi, I'm just getting started on the web console of SQL DM. The issue I have now is that I'm not seeing any instances and the database table 'common.instances' is empty. Do I need to run some import...
View ArticleAlerting on SQL Server Waits
We have an issue where users are getting a timeout once sever waits get above about 10,000. I'd like to be alerted on this but I can't find the metric for it. It does not appear to be "SQL Server...
View ArticleWhy do graphs in different areas show different results for the same metric?
When looking in the overall view I see a sever wait spike going to 21,000 but when I switch to the Resources tab that same spike is only going to 6,000. Which is correct and why do they differ? This...
View Articlehelp finding query
I'm running version 10.2.1 of SQL DM.Over this past weekend we ran some index rebuilds. Some of the rebuilds took a significant amount of time and I tried to find the queries in the history mode, but...
View ArticleWhen will SQLdm support SQL Server 2017?
Is there an ETA on support? I get an error when adding these to SQLdm and SQL Doctor. The Admin Toolset does let me add them though, even though it gets confused with versions and shows them as SQL 2016.
View ArticleSecondary Replica instance throws unable to monitor errors
We have an AG setup that has a primary replica and a synchronized commit secondary replica that we use for reporting (SQL 2016, Windows 2016, SQLdm 10.2). Since we use it for reporting, we want to...
View ArticleAcknowledge Alerts via Email
Just wondering if this ever became a thing? (I can only find a post on this website referring to it from 2009 saying it will/might be implemented). Any info is appreciated Thanks
View ArticleSQL dm Service Stops
Hi,Every few minutes the SQLdm Management Services stops and requires me to manually restart it. The event log says the following. Any help or ideas from...
View ArticleDM and SQL 2017 on Linux
Hi Can someone tell me how DM works monitoring a SQL2017 instance on Linux? Can it monitor on Linux? If so how does it handle OS metrics?
View ArticleSQLDmCollection Service.exe is consuming more memory on windows server
Hi Team,We have SQL diagnostic Manager 10.0.2 version running for monitoring MSSQL Instances and SQLdmCollection.exe is consuming more physical resources.Please let us know, how do overcome from this...
View ArticleDM 10.1 cannot connect to sql server 2016
Cannot create connection DM 10.1 and sql server 2016- getting error from DM Manager server during test connection phase: "A connection was successfully established with the server but then an error...
View ArticleInterpretation of SQL DM Data
Hello, I am wondering what other SQL DM users consider to be a good resource for interpretation of the data gathered and presented by Diagnostic Manager.Thanks!Bill
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