System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008

This Monitoring Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Appliance provides capabilities to discover, monitor, and manage your SQL Server PDW appliances. The management pack simplifies the monitoring Process for PDW. In addition to health monitoring capabilities, this monitoring pack includes a custom diagram view to visualize appliance health. The custom view has detailed knowledge about the health states for the hardware and software components. The custom view enables near real-time Diagnosis and resolution of detected issues. Important Pre-Requisite Notes:This monitoring pack depends on the SQL Server Appliance Base Monitoring Pack; this helps you manage your SQL Server appliances by discovering appliances in your network and distinguishing them from other Windows servers.You need to import the SQL Server Base Appliance Management Pack before importing the SQL Server PDW Appliance Management Pack. Feature SummaryThe following list gives an overview of the features of this monitoring pack for PDW Appliance. Refer to the Monitoring Pack for SQL Server 2008 R2 PDW Applianceguide for more Details. Discovers SQL Server PDW Appliances, including the hardware manufacturer. Monitors both hardware and software components of SQL Server PDW Appliance. Custom e-mail template to provide more detailed information regarding the alerts. Tasks to integrate with the various PDW admin console views. Run-as profile to securely Connect to PDW appliance for discovery and monitoring.