4. Visual Schedule Management
No more trying to use "Next Run Date" to divine a server's job schedule!
Unprecedented Visibility and Control
The visual calendar highlights schedule overlap and contention issues, long running events, failed events and more using clear visual indicators. Quickly view historical and future schedule information at a glance, and easily resolve conflicts using drag-and-drop. Note that the drag-and-drop feature is disabled in the trial version.
If your calendar shows a lot of
orange shading there may be resource contention between scheduled events, which can result in longer run times and an increased chance of event failure.
Global Calendars
The primary purpose of the Global Calendar is to very quickly see those events that are of most interest to you across the entire enterprise, without having to click through every server calendar, or all of the various list views in the native tools.
The Devices global view includes all watched SQL Server, Oracle and Windows Task Scheduler connections. By default, the Devices global view shows only historical events and is filtered to show only failed events, or events with a duration greater than one minute. Using no filter on large environments can cause "information overload" very quickly. The SQL Servers global view contains watched SQL Server instances that are registered in the native client tools.
Future and running events are disabled in global views, but you can adjust the runtime filter and other filter criteria on the Event View filter tab to further refine the display for personal preferences.
Custom Event Views
You can quickly group common events or servers in a single calendar view. Custom Event Views allow you to easily group jobs, servers or other items of specific interest into one calendar view for quick review and access. Custom Event Views are typically used to:
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Show all events associated with a shared resource, i.e. SAN, NAS, or certain network segment.
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Eliminate backup contention across servers competing for SAN and network resources
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Optimize backup performance - native AND compressed backup systems
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Monitor and manage log shipping and replication across your enterprise
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Provide DBAs with a view of specific jobs they're responsible for managing
If you've not watched our
Event Manager Overview video, take a moment and let us describe the main features, so you'll know what to look for during your evaluation.
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