Multiple SQL Server management

Our company already has an infrastructure monitoring tool, and it plays very nicely with SQL Server versions 2000 through 2008. It is primarily a monitoring tool, and so is somewhat limited on historical reporting or trending.

I’m currently working on an SSIS package that I can run on a schedule from a central SQL Server that will go and gather data from my other servers. One function that I’ve been testing is the sp_readerrorlog procedure to capture and then merge the SQL Log files into a single table.

Other options I’m looking to start include an hourly file sizing report by database. This would allow me to make some fancy trending reports to the management types so they can watch the growth of their data.

Another is performance information like Plan Cache and Buffer Cache, User connections, Agent Job history… etc.

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