Automating sql server daily health checks
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Presentation on using a PowerShell script to query a list of SQL Servers against the msdb databases for failed jobs and other exceptions for a daily email list of all the issues that occurred the previous day.
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- 1. * Dean Willson presented to fwPASS on 10/22/2013
- 2. * Peace of Mind * Redundancy * One place to see exceptions * Notifications: on success, on fail, or both? * 40 success emails/day (full). Hundreds/day (log). Did I get them all? *
- 3. * Deleted or missing Agent schedule * Disabled agent job * No mail profile (ex: restored user databases, but not master) * Alert system not configured * Job notification not configured * Agent turned off * Exchange was down *
- 4. * Administrative utility database (or at least a table) to store the daily check results from each server * Scheduling method to run jobs like backups, index rebuilds, consistency checks, etc. * Text file list of SQL Servers/Instances to check * Powershell script to query the servers * Method to schedule the PoSH script (Scheduled Task) * Reporting Services (Improved, but optional) *
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- 14. * Dean Willson * Sr. Data Architect at Aunt Millie’s Bakeries * fwPASS http://fwPASS.org * deanowillson@gmail.com * LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/deanwillson * Twitter @deanwillson * Blog http://dean-o.blogspot.com *