I've been working on a little project on my own that I thought I would share with the public. The project is essentially creating a report that would generally display how long a server had been up between two different times. In other words, an uptime report. I know that there's a report that's currently built into SQL Diagnostic Manager so I decided to go a different route. For my report, it was going to be based on a custom counter that I would create. The custom counter would simply collect the number of minutes since the SQL Server instance has started. I've attached the custom counter below.
community.idera.com/…/Server-Uptime.xml
After creating the custom counter, I then link the custom counter to the instances that I'm monitoring with SQL Diagnostic Manager. At that point, I just let SQL Diagnostic Manager do its thing. After some time has passed, I then tried to create my own T-SQL script which would query the SQLdm Repository Database to give me a general uptime report. Before I show you the script, I want to point out that I'm not exactly fluent with T-SQL. I'm pretty sure things could have been written better and I'm hoping some of you will help improve the script. With that out of the way, here's my script.
community.idera.com/…/5734.SQLDM-_2D00_-Uptime-Report.sql
The script itself does require some input. Right now, it takes one instance at a time and reports the uptime statistics between the dates that you supply.
If this piques your interest, please do give it a try and let me know if you have any suggestions on how it could be improved!
TIA!