SQLdiagnostic manager ™

Real-time performance monitoring and diagnostics for SQL Server™

OVERVIEW
Idera's SQL diagnostic manager (SQLdm) provides a powerful
way to manage, administer, and troubleshoot your SQL Server
environment. With a wealth of real-time SQL Server
performance information and deep diagnostics at your
fingertips, you can increase availability and speed time-to-
recovery. From a central point of control, you can pinpoint,
investigate, and diagnose SQL Server performance and
availability problems – including common issues like long-
running queries and worst-performing stored procedures. You
can then quickly take preemptive action if necessary. The
extensive historical metrics that SQL diagnostic manager
provides will also streamline and simplify strategic planning
such as capacity planning and trend analysis. SQL diagnostic
manager will drastically reduce tedious administrative time and SQL diagnostic manager collects and displays real-time
help both experienced and novice DBAs increase productivity.
diagnostic data covering SQL Server, helping you to
quickly investigate and correct database problems.

WHY SQL DIAGNOSTIC MANAGER?

In many organizations today, SQL Server supports business
Gathers data across multiple servers simultaneously –
critical applications and DBAs are required to ensure
Collects and sorts data, enabling you to view information for
performance and availability. DBAs must also support constantly
one server or for the entire environment. You can easily
growing SQL Server deployments with constrained resources. To
identify the worst-performing stored procedures across all
ensure optimum performance, administrators need reliable SQL
your servers or learn whether a SQL Agent maintenance job
Server information. SQLdm provides a new level of flexibility and
has failed on one server or all simultaneously.
responsiveness when it comes to managing a SQL Server
infrastructure. SQLdm monitors the performance of all SQL
Stores data in a Metrics Repository – Metrics from across
Servers in real time and provides the most comprehensive SQL
the SQL Server enterprise are stored in a central repository,
Server diagnostics on the market – enabling DBAs to receive
enabling DBAs to create a variety of reports for strategic
immediate alerts, troubleshoot, and resolve problems quickly.
analysis – such as trend analysis, capacity planning, data
comparison, data correlation, and forecasting.
KEY BENEFITS
Supplies continuous unattended monitoring – SQLdm
Increases SQL Server availability – Enables DBAs and other
monitors your mission-critical SQL applications 24 x 7 whether
administrators to quickly investigate, diagnose and correct
a DBA is logged in or not. A powerful service-driven
performance and availability problems. On-screen recovery
collection and alerting engine keeps DBAs informed even
tasks make it easy to solve a problem once diagnosed.
while away.
Convenient tasks include start/stop a SQL Agent job, stop a
blocking process, terminate a user connection, or rebuild an
Improves the productivity of both skilled and novice DBAs –
index on a table.
Delivers organized data views with built-in data collection.
These views eliminate the need to apply complex system
Provides real–time monitoring from a Web browser –
commands, while built-in features detail exactly what the
Manage one or hundreds of SQL Servers anytime, anywhere.
interface displays.
The SQLdm Web Console enables DBAs to monitor the
performance of SQL Servers in real time from the office,
Offers easy installation and use – Installs quickly and
home, or local internet café.
supports a mixed environment of Windows integrated
security and SQL Server native security. A typical installation
Provides a comprehensive view of current performance –
and configuration will take less than 30 minutes.
Collects and displays extensive real-time activity and
performance information for processes, caches, alerts,
memory, transactions, logs, locks, replication, reorganization
status and trace data.
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T E C H N I C A L F E AT U R E S
• Analyzes performance trends using real-time and historical
data to identify abnormal operating states
• Collects performance information from the operating system
and SQL Server
• Offers simple, no-agent installation with continuous, secure
data collection from a background service
• Provides more than 15 screens organizing current status and
performance information into easy-to-use diagnostic data
• Identifies the worst-performing stored procedures, SQL
statements and SQL batches during a specified period
• Provides server categorization capabilities used to selectively
view specific servers via grid views – server group, application
group, department, location
• Provides a flexible and customizable grid view that displays
all monitoring data for both the server and database that can
be customized and saved, shared across multiple SQLdm
instances, and exported into CSV formatted files for easy SQL diagnostic manager provides 11 key real-time
reporting and analysis statistical categories to use in conjunction with
• Displays current process list, including which process is using historical information and worst-performing code
the most resources. SQLdm also provides drilldown to a live
for troubleshooting problems as they occur.
trace of any process and permits either the process or the
user connection to the server to be terminated
• Monitors selected processes to ensure that no single one
consumes more than a predefined percentage of hardware SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
resources during a designated period on the SQL Server SQL diagnostic manager Operating Requirements:
instances being monitored • Intel Pentium 900MHz processor or equivalent
• Enhanced management of alerts and settings with the ability • 256MB RAM
to apply a single alert or setting entry to any number of • 36MB drive space plus 34MB for each monitored server
monitored servers • Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
• Uses SNMP alerting to dispatch alerts directly to enterprise • Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003
management frameworks like Tivoli, OpenView and UniCenter • Monitor capable of displaying 16bit color or greater and a
• Identifies the process at the head of the blocking chain for resolution of 800x600
easy resolution
• Supplies extensive views of current SQL Server status and Web Console Server System Requirements:
performance, including SQL Agent jobs, SQL error log, full- • Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003
text catalogs, memory utilization, open transactions, • ASP.Net 1.1
performance, problem locks, procedure cache, processes, • Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 or later
reorganization status and replication details
• Provides recovery tasks including stopping processes, Web Console Client System Requirements:
disconnecting user connections, starting/stopping SQL Agent • Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP
jobs, rebuilding indices and updating statistics Professional
• Displays objects dependent on tables — and vice-versa — • ASP.Net 1.1
to help you avoid errors in object modification • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later, with Active Scripting
and Java support enabled
• Adobe Reader 5.0 or later
WEB CONSOLE TECHNICAL FEATURES
• Allows multiple users to track SQL Server performance Supported Environments:
anytime, anywhere from a read-only Web console • SQL Server v7.0, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, including
• Monitors hundreds of SQL Server instances in real-time using 64-bit SQL Server on the operating systems they support
easy-to-define custom server groups
• Uses drill-down views that capture statistics about individual SQL diagnostic manager does not install any components,
SQL Server databases, allowing you to gather deep DLLs, scripts, stored procedures or tables on the SQL Server
diagnostic data, such as: instances being monitored.
• CPU, memory and network utilization
• Processes, locks, open transactions and procedure cache
• Job summary and history C O N TA C T S
• SQL Server logs Idera Corporate Headquarters
• Database statistics 802 Lovett Boulevard
• Offers quick deployment Houston, TX USA 77006
• Provides an easy-to-learn user interface that leverages the Toll-free: 1.877.GO.IDERA
familiar Microsoft Outlook 2003 style Phone: 713.523.4433
Fax: 713.862.5210
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