Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
a) In your device list, find the device that represents the SQL Server.
b) Right-click the device, then select Properties.
c) Select Active Monitors.
d) Click Add. The Active Monitor wizard appears.
e) Select the monitor from the list, and continue with the wizard to configure any actions
for the monitor.
For more information on setting up an action, see Configuring an action (on page 273).
Note: If you select Use in rescan, WhatsUp Gold adds the monitor to the Active Monitors list.
From that list, you can select to scan for that service on all applications found during
discovery.
5 Click OK to save changes.
After configuring an active monitor in the Active Monitor Library, add the monitor to devices
(on page 226).
xix) Getting Started with SQL Server Monitors
1 Determine which SQL parameters to monitor.
Note: To use some parameters, configure your System Data Source (ODBC) name for the SQL
Server. This is done in the Windows Data Sources (ODBC) administrator.
2 Determine which SQL services to monitor.
3 Decide whether to create a single monitor with multiple parameters and services,
several monitors with one parameter or service, or some combination. Whether you set
up one monitor or many has a bearing on how the information is reported in WhatsUp
Gold logs and by actions. For example, if you create a single monitor to check disk
usage, you can name it SQLDisk and it will be reported in logs with this name.
4 Configure an SQL Server Monitor with your selected parameters and/or services.
5 Add the SQL Monitor to the device that represents your SQL server.
6 Set up an action to tell you when the monitor goes down or comes back up.
Note: The monitor is reported down if any of the parameters or services in that monitor are
down.
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