14. Cross-Platform Support

Wouldn't it be nice to see your entire enterprise in one global view?

SQL Sentry Event Manager seamlessly integrates external event data into calendars, and gives you unprecedented visibility and control over all of the events that can impact your server performance. SQL Sentry Event Manager supports SQL Agent jobs, Windows Tasks, and Oracle jobs in increasingly complex cross-platform environments.

SQL Server, Oracle and Task Scheduler
Just as SQL Agent jobs and Oracle jobs can impact server performance, so can, for example, a Windows Task running a disk defragmentation. DBAs need to know about all of those events since they're using the same CPU, RAM, and disk resources.

Using a plug-in architecture, Event Manager connector modules allow these popular external systems to be integrated and easily managed through the Event Manager Console. Event Manager automatically brings all of these events together and displays them on its unified calendar, so you get the whole picture, not just part of it.

Automation
Once the data is collected from multiple platforms, it can be used to trigger various actions such as sending email notifications, executing other jobs or processes, or logging events. The cross-platform capability of Event Manager allows it to manage and automate dependencies between different event types and across multiple servers through chaining.

"Event Manager should be in your 'install everywhere' software set. You won't want to manage tasks and jobs on systems that don't have it once you've used it."
-- Stephen Wynkoop, SQL Server Worldwide Users Group