Monitoring Backup Results of Several SQL 2005 Servers from Central Location

  • In SQL 2000, I am able to use SQL Enterprise Manager to view all my SQL 2000 servers and easily verify that my backup/maintenance jobs had run successfully by expanding 'SQL Server Agent' under 'Management' and looking at the 'Last Run Status' for each server. When I try to do the same thing in SMSS for my remote SQL 2005 servers, neither the 'Maintenance Plans' under 'Management' or the 'SQL Server Agent' are viewable, although most of the rest of the database objects and their sub-objects are viewable. There must be a built-in way to do this, but I have searched BOL and repeatedly attempted to find an answer on Google. I must be putting in the wrong keywords or something.

  • Is there really no answer to this question, or is there another reason I'm not getting any replies to this?

  • For maintenance plans, goto Management & Right click on Maintenance Plans, then click on View History

    For jobs, goto SQL Server agent, right click on Jobs folder and click view history.

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    Or query the msdb table and pull the results together in 1 table somewhere for all yours servers and view it there.

    Do something like this:

    http://www.sql-server-performance.com/articles/dba/centralized_sql_server_monitoring_p1.aspx

    And grab other data with it like last backup time

    http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid87_gci1178991,00.html

  • Thank you. I'll work through these in the next few days.

    Paul

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