monitor log shipping : MIcrosoft, SQL Server, 2005

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05.09.2008 at 08:38AM PDT, ID: 23389784 | Points: 250

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monitor log shipping

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Tags: MIcrosoft, SQL Server, 2005

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Zone: Microsoft

Question Asked By: wendellbogle

Question Asked On: 05.09.2008

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05.09.2008 at 08:42AM PDT, ID: 21534006

Rank: Genius

chapmandew:

With this stored procedure:

sp_help_log_shipping_monitor

05.09.2008 at 10:13AM PDT, ID: 21534821

Rank: Master

MohammedU:

SQL Server 2005 Books Online (September 2007)
How to: View the Log Shipping Report (SQL Server Management Studio)http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181149.aspx

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/articles/clustering/log_shipping_70_p1.aspx

05.09.2008 at 11:30AM PDT, ID: 21535363

wendellbogle:

thanks for the feedback.. I should have been a bit more clear...

the "built in" reports, etc. seem to be somewhat wanting.... just wondering if anyone out there has any good custom solutions...particularly in terms of failure notifications.

05.09.2008 at 11:34AM PDT, ID: 21535393

Rank: Master

MohammedU:

Alert Job
If a monitor server is used, an alert job is created on the monitor server instance. This alert job is shared by the primary and secondary databases of all log shipping configurations using this monitor server instance. Any change to the alert job (such as rescheduling, disabling, or enabling the job) affects all databases using that monitor server. This job raises alerts (for which you must specify alert numbers) for primary and secondary databases when backup and restore operations have not completed successfully within specified thresholds. You must configure these alerts to have an operator receive notification of the log shipping failure. The SQL Server Agent job category "Log Shipping Alert" is created on the monitor server instance when log shipping is enabled.

If a monitor server is not used, alert jobs are created locally on the primary server instance and each secondary server instance. The alert job on the primary server instance raises errors when backup operations have not completed successfully within a specified threshold. The alert job on the secondary server instance raises errors when local copy and restore operations have not completed successfully within a specified threshold.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187103.aspx

05.09.2008 at 12:57PM PDT, ID: 21535981

wendellbogle:

Thanks Mohammed,

I have a mirrored pair of databases with both the Primary and Mirror db's set up as log shipping primaries to the same log shipping target.

What is the best way to suppress the alerts that are fired due to the Mirror db not actively performing log backups?

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