SQL Monitor Onboarding Checklist
Published 21 October 2021
Stage 1: Preparing for Installation
- Read Planning for SQL Monitor
- Check supported platforms
- Provision the hardware
- Check Permissions required for the SQL Monitor Service accounts
- Create SQL Monitor database
Stage 2: Installation and Set Up
- Installation: Set up web server
- Installation: Set up base monitor
- Installation: Set up multiple base monitors (advanced installations)
- Create SQL Monitor Admin account and other user accounts
- Activate your licenses (for additional support, check out the below articles)
How to allocate your SQL Monitor licenses (versions 11.2.3 and later)
Stage 3: Planning connections to remote servers
- Read How SQL Monitor connects to monitored servers
- Read Preparing for adding monitored servers
- Check Permissions required for monitoring servers
- Check Adding servers on a different network from your Base Monitor
Stage 4: Add servers
Stage 5: Using SQL Monitor
- Review How SQL Monitor collects metric and alert data
- Dashboards and Overviews
- Configuring alerts
- Configuring alert notifications
- Analyzing metrics
- Responding to alerts
- Estate information and Reports
Stage 6: Admin for SQL Monitor
- Manage monitored servers
- What to try if you hit connection problems
- Maintaining and upgrading SQL Monitor
