Does anyone know of a way, either by 3rd party tools or using SQL server, to have alerts get emailed to you in a clustered active/active environment? I work as the DBA at a quickly-growing company, whose production databases need to be online 24X7. I want to set up the alerts to email/page me if there are problems with the databases, but since (according to microsoft) SQL mail is not supported in a clustered environment I'm at a loss.
I'm looking for some help in trying to resolve this issue either by 3rd party means or a SQL Server work around.
We are in the process of setting up a SQL Server 2000 cluster, but have been told that MAPI email is not cluster aware so we can't use the alert system.
Has anyone got any idea how to get round this or how to set up alerts in another way (eg: when a backup fails, can we send smtp mail?) etc
I once had a procedure to setup exchange client as email for SQL alerts, but I've misplaced it. (threw it out, actually) I've not had great luck finding it on the web at MS, or otherwise. Does anyone know where this can be found? Thanks in advance, John
i get just as frustrated each time i try to configure email alerts on failed jobs on ms sql, it is beyond me why microsoft couldn't just let you point out an SMTP server to send through and be done with it.
is there a way to avoid having to setup an email client on our sql 7 and 2000 servers through some 3rd party app or other simple solution?
HI, Does any one know how I could send all the alerts, email notifications from the SQL Server to my Sprint PCS Phone. Is there any software for that. I know that it can be done by MSN mobile. Just checking whether it can be directly sent to my phone rather than going to hotmail which is then forwared to my cell phone. Let me know. Thanks, Cinday
Running sql server 2000 sp4 on an 8 year old Server and a shaky SAN. We have had 3 major outages (corrupted databases) and they are finally biting the bullet and ordering a new Server. The new server will not be in place for about 9 days so until then... limping along with what we have. Is there any way to have SQL Server send an email alert when a specific error occurrs and is logged in the SQL log? These are the two errors that I want to alert on.. "Error: 823, Severity: 24, State: 2" or "I/O error (bad page ID) detected during read at offset"
Hello sirWe have a very huge database its around 6 lakh recordsare being stored in it.records are not being a sorted order so we checked allrecord field through clustering option in Sql server.when we usedclustering records are showing in sorted order but speed of database isvery slow .i want to know with clustering is there any implecation in databaseregading performance od data.Can any one give his views to solve thisproblem?and increase the performance of our database.thanks a lot
I have a report that gets sends out through a subscription and sometimes the report has multiple pages and all those pages appear within one email.Is it possible to set the subscription in such a way that an email is sent per page when the subscription executes.
Under IIS SMTP I can set bounced email redirect etc. how to do that with dbmail, the idea is I can get the list of bounced emails somewhere so I can create a report.
Is there a way that I can get SQL Server to tell me (Alert?) when it has grabbed another chunk of space for a database that has the "Automatically grow file" option set?
I was wondering if anyone knew of some key error numbers that I should look for to fire alerts off of.
For example, ERROR 926 "Database cannot be opened. It has been marked SUSPECT by recovery. See the SQL Server error log for more information."
I am looking for some key error messages (Error Numbers) like the one above that are good to initially setup within SQL Server for alerting Administrators of potential issues.
Hi, I just realized there are several severity alerts on the Server Agent, from Severity 19 to 25. Is there anyways to delete those messages? If I don't delete those, would it be affected later? The Online Book mentions those are some of the system error messages, but they don't show how to delete them. Can anyone helps? Thanks a lot.
I am having trouble with locks and performance issues in one application. The SQL server is specific to this application. What settings should i choose to set an alert to let me know when i get too many locks? the locks i am interested in ar ethe ones that show up in SQL EM. ie where a process is blocking another process(es).
I have tried New Alert | lock requests /sec but that is a huge figure when the server is running OK, so i cant guess what value to set for the counter. Is there a better object/counter i should use?
I've setup alerts and an operator to email on a particular event code. I can successfully test the operator. (It e-mails fine) The problem I am having is that despite having a particular event log to the NT application log, no SQL Alert is triggered. I've tried logging to the NT Application log, as well as the SQL errorlog. The SQLExecutive is running. Thanks in advance. John
I am working with alerts and trying to see if there is a way that I can control the message on the notification. I have the job set to send an email and a net message when the job succeeds. Since this message will be going to the user, I owuld like to be able to make the message as clear as possible for them. Does anyone know if the message being sent can be modified or altered with an alert? And how?
Hey guys, I was just thinking, is it possible to send alerts via the Managment/SQL Server Agent/Operators/Alerts to an SMS system?
Is it even technically posibble?
Actually I am trying to develop an alert system that reads the database table periodcally, the data being read is a datetime, once it reaches the time, I need to send an sms to the person.
I defined an Alert in Enterprise Manager for Severity 19 - Fatal Error In Resource. The alert is enabled, the type is "sql server event alert" and the alert is defined against a specific database. SQLSERVERAGENT and SQL Mail session are both started. I test the alert using the following statement in the specified database.
raiserror (50001,19,1) with log
A message is placed in the SQL Server log, however no alert is fired. The alert history indicates the alert has never occurred. What am I missing?
what I want to achieve is to load a text file that has email addreses from disk and using the email addresses in the text file look it up against the email addresses in the database table then once matched delete all the users in the table whose email address were in the text file.
I also want to update some users using a different text file.
Can anyone point me in the direction of a good resource that will help us set up our system so that notifications from alerts/jobs send emails to our Groupwise email system?
I have several alerts set up and a job setup to notify via email if alerts occur. There are times when I might be doing maintenace on a box that may generate alerts but I don't want to get emailed or paged for these "dummy" alerts. I thought first of setting the enabled column of sysalerts to 0 - that doesn't work. I still get notified. Then I thought I'd set the enabled column in sysjobs for my notification job to 0 while I'm doing the work. But as soon as I re-enable the job I get an alert. It seems that as soon as the job is re-enabled it checks the NT application log and sees that an alert was fired and somehow knows that there was no notification sent so sends one. If I purge the NT application log before re-enabling the job is solves the problem. But that is a very in-ellegant solution and I don't want to loose all the info stored in the event log any way. Does anyone know how SQL SErver aggent keeps track of this stuff? (ie. that an alert was fired but it's response job is disabled and to check once a job is re-enabled to see if any alerts occured while it was disabled?) I did a Profiler trace while re-enabling the job but didn't see anything pertinant in there.
I want to write a sql alert to notify me when my database is out of space. So as not to duplicate any messages - has anyone seen threads on this subject? If not, can anyone give ideas on how to create this script? thanks in advance.
I'm searching for tips on how to alert users regarding downtime of our SQL Server. Is it good enough to alert users by email, and then shut down the service, or do you use a better approach (lock database, sp_who, one-by-one alert...)?
I want to creat an alert that will back up my database when the log files get to 90% full. When i try to create a new alert and select performance condition and select sqlserver:databases as the object then log file(s) Used size (kb) as the counter but when i go and select the instance i dont see my database in the drop down list but if I change to sql server event alert I see the database i want to use for this alert. I dont want to wait until the log is already full to back it up i want to do it when it hits a percent full. Is there a way to do this as a performance condition? thanks for your help!
Maybe a dumb question, the standard alerts like Severity 24 and 25 that come when you install SQL Server, will these alerts be called by SQL Server itself if there is a problem. I was going to set up notifications for these but wasn't sure if it was worth the trouble.
