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ipSentry Monitoring Features - ODBC, Database, SQL
Query Monitor
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The ipSentry Database and Query monitoring add-in provides you with
the ability to ensure that your databases and database servers are
not only available, but can accept and response to query requests
This add-in utilizes your ODBC data sources in order to established
the connection with the database or database server and then
optionally issue SQL query against the database.
The results of the query can be evaluated for the number of rows
returned, the value of a variable assigned in the query, or can be
used simply to executed a stored procedure and test the query time.
Use of this add-in is generally utilized to test the following
aspects of your database server.
- Server or Database is accepting connections.
- Server or Database is accepting logon credentials.
- The time to connect is within the specified threshold.
- The server is accepting queries.
- The returned results are within specification.
- The time to complete the query is within specification.
The ODBC Database and Connection Monitoring Add-in connects to a
database over ODBC and optionally executes a query, and optionally
evaluates the results. Notice how many times we mention
'optionally'? There is a reason for that.
The add-in can be used to just test database connections on your
network, it can be used to submit an EXEC query that returns no
results, and/or it can be used to perform a query that will return
row data which can be counted by ipSentry or you can design an SQL
query to return a specified value that the add-in can evaluate.
For example, let's say you know there should be 10000 records in a
given database at all times, and of those we know that 2000 of them
will always contain a specific value in a specific column. We could
simply have the add-in perform a basic 'SELECT * from db where
column=value' query against the database and evaluate the count as
being required to be at least 2000. Now, that can be pretty resource
intensive, so we also provide the means to utilize just a SELECT
count() option and this information is available in our help
documents.
You can also query system table values, status values, all kinds of
cool things where a numeric value can be returned and compared to
denote failure or success.
Evaluate this feature in the fully functional
download.
View the
Online Help Documentation for this feature.
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