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The Alerts section allows you to configure your email settings and enter an email address for subscribing to alerts. When you subscribe to alerts, IDERA SQL Inventory Manager sends you alert emails for critical issues on your environment. These alerts are a result of a set of health checks performed by IDERA SQL Inventory Manager on your SQL Server instances.
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On the Discovery section, you can choose if you want to enable or disable automatic registration for your instances.
IDERA SQL Inventory Manager continuously scans your environment to discover SQL Server instances and keeps you informed of newly installed instances.
When you enable the auto-registration option, IDERA SQL Inventory Manager automatically registers instances as it finds them. Note that IDERA SQL Inventory Manager performs first an initial scan of your environment, then auto-registration will begin for future discovered instances.
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The next section, Manage Discovery, allows you to configure options for discovering instances. You can specify those computers where you want IDERA SQL Inventory Manager to discover SQL Server instances and choose which methods you want to use to search in each computer. To find more information about these settings, go to How to Manage Discovery Options.
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The next section, Add Instances, allows you to determine how you would like to initially choose the instances you want to monitor. You need to register SQL Server instances in order to monitor them with IDERA SQL Inventory Manager.
This section lets you choose from:
- Using the Add Instance wizard - which takes you to a wizard where you can manually pick those instances you want to monitor, specify which connection credentials IDERA SQL Inventory Manager will use to connect to them, add owner, location, comments, and tags. For more information, refer to Add SQL Server instances.
- List of discovered instances - this option takes you directly to the Discovered section on the Instances view. From this section you can pick which instances you wish to monitor and which ones you wish to ignore. For more information, refer to Discovered instances and Ignored instances respectively.
- Registering all discovered instances - this option lets you initially register all discovered instances.
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Finally, the last section provides you with a summary of other key features available on IDERA SQL Inventory Manager such as:
- Tags - . You can use tags to organize or group your instances for better management. Tags also help you filter views and explore your instances.
- Health Check Recommendations - . IDERA SQL Inventory Manager performs a set of health checks on you environment to alert you from critical issues. These health checks also ensure that basic configuration and disaster recovery recommendations are followed. You can access knowledge base articles in each health check recommendation to get more information.
- Invite other users - . You can grant other users access to IDERA SQL Inventory Manager or enter their email addresses to receive alert notifications.
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