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Data Sheet: Nimsoft Monitor for Databases (PDF)

SQL Server monitoring solutions from Nimsoft enable you to efficiently, effectively monitor SQL Server databases throughout your organization.

Nimsoft Monitor enables users to get intuitive, at-a-glance insights into SQL Server database performance.

Many of your organization’s most vital information assets reside in Microsoft SQL Server databases. Turn to Nimsoft Monitor for SQL Server to help ensure those assets are continuously available to the users and applications that need them.

Timely Insights that Foster Improved Service Levels

A central point of vital data and processing, your SQL Server databases represent a critical component of your IT environment. With Nimsoft Monitor for SQL Server, you get an efficient, comprehensive way to monitor, manage, and optimize the performance of your SQL Server databases. With Nimsoft Monitor, your database administrators can be alerted to performance issues and quickly resolve them—before they affect users and the business. Plus, Nimsoft Monitor offers the actionable end user response monitoring data you need to effectively track the response times delivered by associated applications.

Key Features

Extensive SQL Server Monitoring Capabilities

  • Comprehensive SQL Server coverage.
    Nimsoft Monitor gives you a comprehensive view of your entire SQL Server infrastructure, whether you’re looking to monitor a single database instance on a single server, or multiple instances on multiple server clusters. Nimsoft Monitor allows you to manage both local and remote database servers, and it delivers comprehensive server performance metrics—including uptime, free log file space, log file cache hit ratio, and more.
  • Fast insights.
    With its centralized view of all SQL Server instances, Nimsoft Monitor enables you to quickly get the insights you need to optimize the performance and availability of your entire SQL Server infrastructure. Nimsoft Monitor offers granular capabilities for setting thresholds, polling schedules, and alarms—so you can ensure your team is notified of potential issues when needed.
  • Efficient deployment and administration.
    Nimsoft Monitor offers a simple configuration process that makes setup and deployment fast and efficient. Using a standard interface, you can quickly define which database servers and database instances are to be monitored, and what metrics are to be collected. Further, Nimsoft Monitor features templates that automatically apply the appropriate monitoring settings when new SQL Server instances come online. These capabilities can significantly reduce the administrative burden of monitoring large numbers of SQL Server servers.
Benefits

The Power of Intelligent SQL Server Monitoring

  • Improved performance and uptime.
    Nimsoft Monitor offers flexible, sophisticated alerting capabilities that accelerate the identification of performance issues—enabling response before end user productivity is affected. Plus, with our PMDB, you can also track key historical performance metrics to intelligently assess performance trends and more effectively guard against potential issues.
  • Enhanced resource optimization.
    By delivering a centralized, comprehensive view of performance, Nimsoft Monitor gives you invaluable insights into opportunities for better utilizing your existing resources.
  • Reduced monitoring administration cost and effort.
    With its capabilities for building templates and automating new database instance monitoring, Nimsoft Monitor significantly reduces the time and effort required to monitor SQL Server database environments.
Technical Details

Comprehensive SQL Server Monitoring

Nimsoft Monitor for SQL Server can track and report on the following metrics:

  • Local and/or remote monitoring of SQL Servers
  • Server uptime
  • Size of database
  • Buffer cache-hit ratio
  • Log-file cache-hit ratio
  • Free log-file space
  • Number of:
    • databases
    • active users
    • logged-in users
    • deadlocks per second
    • transactions per second
    • database reads
    • database writes
    • flush waits
    • latch waits
    • full scans
  • Transaction log growth
  • Transaction log shrinking
Platform Features

Agent-optional coverage

Agent-optional coverage

Easily monitor local or remote environments. More

Alarm Console

Alarm Console

See, assign and close alarms. Fast. More

Alarm Database

Alarm Database

Accelerate problem resolution. More

APIs and SDKs

Integration Technologies

Tailor the solution to meet your unique business requirements. More

Automatic Discovery & Deployment

Auto Discovery

Keep informed of changes to your infrastructure. More

Flexible Pricing & Licensing

Flexible Pricing & Licensing

Works with your budget, and your business. More

Gateways and 3rd Party Integration

Gateways and 3rd Party Integration

Integrate all of your IT monitoring tools with ease. More

ITIL Compatible

ITIL Library

Best-practices. Built-in.More

Message Bus

Message Bus

Rest assured that your solution is future ready. More

Multi-Tenant

Multi-Tenant

Scale your services efficiently and economically. More

Nimsoft for iPhone

Nimsoft for iPhone

Unified IT monitoring, now in your pocket. More

On-Premise, or On-Demand

On-Premise, or On-Demand

Flexibility to suit your business. More

Performance Management Database

Performance Management Database (PMDB)

Spot trends before they become problems. More

Security

Security

Keep private data private. More

Service Level Management

Service Level Management

Set, meet and exceed your SLAs. More

Usage-Based Metering & Billing

Usage-Based Metering & Billing

Provide pay-as-you-grow scalability for your customers. More

Web Archive

Web Archive

Access the world's largest collection of monitoring probes. More

 
SaaS and On-Premises Deployment Options

 

  • Complete Service Desk and Monitoring functionality
  • No upfront management hardware costs; Accelerated ROI
  • Reduced training and management overhead
  • SLA based availability
  • Access to Nimsoft operational expertise
  • Control and customize the Nimsoft management server; Easily resell
  • Control the physical location of data for policy, security or compliance reasons
  • Support remote sites with poor Internet performance

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