The management experience of multiple installations through SQL Diagnostic Manager effectively summarizes and collects data through all the owned instances.
Remember that you can use any existing functionality to display or administer across all Diagnostic Manager Nodes as a single repository installation, such as
Server Views that allow you to monitor multiple instances using different views such as heatmap, thumbnails of mini-monitors, an instances' list and their details, or instances' list with their server properties.
The Thumbnail view is limited to 300 servers. You can add new tags or select some servers from the server tree to filter and display a specific selection. |
Custom Counters display a variety of performance metrics for one or more of your DMSO instances. You can add additional performance metrics or remove the default ones.
All custom counters are available for DMSO Installations. |
You can pick different servers from the instances' list (using a tag or selecting them directly from the server tree). It does not matter if they belong to different cluster environments or if it is a local instance; SQL Diagnostic Manager will monitor them as if they were a single instance. |
Also, you can perform the following items across all DM Repositories as though it was one SQL Diagnostic installation: