SQL Inventory Manager v2.0
Released: Oct 1, 2015
Updates in this release
Updates in v2.0
- Product name changed from SQL Elements to SQL Inventory Manager
- Enhancements to Discovery
- Expands discovery collection criteria to those which Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) toolkit uses for SQL Servers.
- Specify a listing of alternate credentials with admin privileges to use during the discovery process in case the original credentials are not valid.
- Enhancements to Inventory Management
- Database Level Tagging – set tags and comment on databases distinctly from the server instances they reside upon.
- Custom Inventory Fields – create custom inventory fields or labels at the server, instance &/or database level to further categorize assets.
- Server & Database Decommissioning – mark any instances and databases taken offline to prevent erroneous alerting. Those servers will preserve asset and tagging information in the event you need to re-commission later.
- View Application Information – see the applications running on an instance to understand how the server is being utilized and how often the applications are used.
- Improved Scalability – monitor and manage thousands of databases.
- Expanded Search – search by text string for specific instances or databases across the managed inventory.
- Role-based Security Enhancements
- Specify different levels of user access including administrator, modify only and read-only.
- Integration with Idera Dashboard
- Access a consolidated dashboard console to quickly view and navigate between the different products you use from Idera. SQL Inventory Manager will show key indicators in the dashboard view including:
- Top Databases by Size
- Top Databases by Activity
- Tags cloud
- SQL Server Licensing Info
- Additional Platform Support
- Monitor and manage IaaS for Amazon RDS, SQL Azure and SQL Server 2000.