IDERA strives to ensure our products provide quality solutions for your SQL Server needs. The following known issues are described in this section. If you need further assistance with any issue, visit the Support Portal at idera.force.com
After upgrading the IDERA Dashboard with the BI 2.1 installer, SQLDM 10.0.2 installations fail to sync new users’ permissions with the web console. This issue affects only users created in the SQLDM desktop console after the upgrade.
The suggested workaround is as follows:
The suggested workarounds are as follows:
Upgrade SQL Diagnostic Manager to version 9.1 before install.
Install BI Manager 2.1 on a separate dashboard.
Upgrade the current dashboard to version 2.1.1 before install.
Adding BI Instances
After adding an instance to SQL BI Manager with the required credentials for SQL Server and WMI connections, and attempting to "Test Credentials", BI Manager fails to connect with the instance and displays the following error message:
"The following error occurred while connecting to instance XXXXX: The following system error occurred: No such host is known. , with olap-connection. This prevents the collection of SSAS Cubes, Sessions & Objects"
This is caused by the application not being able to support instances with UDP (User Defined Port) configuration.
Upgrade
SQL BI Manager 1.0 users first must upgrade to SQL BM Manager 1.1 before upgrading to version 1.5. To upgrade from SQL BI Manager 1.0 to version 1.1, follow these steps:
To upgrade from SQL BI Manager 1.1 to version 1.5, see Install SQL Business Intelligence Manager . |
Installation
The IDERA Dashboard installer is designed to create a login for the specified service account in the SQL Server Repository database. However, this installer is occasionally unable to create a login on SQL Server 2005 Repository databases. This results in lack of access to the IDERA Dashboard Repository. To solve this issue, create the necessary SQL Server logins outside of the installation process:
Upgrade
In SQL BI Manager 1.1 migration occurs as part of the installation process and requires a custom upgrade procedure. This limitation will be corrected in an upcoming release. To upgrade from SQL BI Manager 1.0 to our latest version follow these steps:
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BI services monitoring
In SQL BI Manager 1.0, any BI service must have a local instance of SQL Server installed to be registered for monitoring. For machines where a BI service is running without a local SQL Server instance, installing a copy of SQL Server Express on the target machine allows those services to be monitored. This limitation will be corrected in an upcoming release.
Users that want to stop monitoring a specific BI service should use “Disable Monitoring” which is accessible through the “gear” icon to the right of the service instance name in the service (SSAS, SSRS, SSIS) view. Selecting Remove will remove the service instance and any associated monitored BI services will stop collecting data and sending alerts as a result. Adding users |
SQL Business Intelligence Manager helps monitor and manage the health and availability of SSAS, SSRS & SSIS. | | | | | | | |