Announcing Minion Enterprise: the new SQL Server Management Solution

minion enterpriseA company with more than one SQL Server instance has no built-in way to gather and report on maintenance, backup, and configuration data across those instances. Even more, there is no good way to push standardized settings out to the enterprise. The database administrator must spend a large amount of time to set up alerts and configure settings, and even then the solution itself is time consuming and often incomplete.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Minion Enterprise 2.0.  Minion Enterprise, or “ME”, is an enterprise management solution for centralized SQL Server management and alerting.

This solution allows your DBA to manage an enterprise of one, hundreds, or even thousands of SQL Servers from one central location. ME provides not just alerting and reporting, but backups, maintenance, configuration, and settings enforcement.

Case Studies

In our client installations, ME has accomplished wonders. Here are a few of them:

  • Allowed a single DBA to manage over 900 servers.
  • Produced a high level and detailed database space projection for the following two years.
  • Standardized file growth rates across the enterprise, saving hundreds of GB of disk space.
  • All but eliminated space management issues, saving 8 hours of DBA work per week.
  • Aided the passing of a security audit in a few minutes, instead of a few days, due to the Active Directory group expansion feature.
  • Audited server group membership from a central location.
  • Determined which accounts didn’t meet AD security policy, and which accounts have weak passwords.
  • Performed rapid impact analysis on SQL Server service account password changes; this determined which servers would be impacted by the change.
  • Reviewed which data and log files reside on the same drive, using a single query for the entire enterprise.
  • Reported on replication latency, to easily tell across the entire enterprise which replication scenarios were lagging behind or failing.
  • Accurately proved how much additional disk space was required, for SAN requests.

Download Minion Enterprise today:

  1. Download the solution from the Minion Enterprise page.
  2. Email us at Support@MidnightDBA.com for the 90 day trial license to activate your download, and for a demonstration.
  3. Check out the Minion Enterprise Introduction document (DOCX | PDF | RTF (zip)).

 

 

This article is reposted from www.MidnightSQL.com

 

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  2. Chris Nelson

    Any price info? Support levels?

    I was going to go over my notes from all of Sean’s talks and such and try building something similar, but hey!, I’ve got other things to do, (coding, watching cats, chatting with voices on the radio), and I have clients that need something they can buy.

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