24x7 Monitoring is the foundation of our Remote DBA service. It is the most cost-effective way to monitor the health of your Microsoft SQL Server database systems.

24x7 Monitoring is comprised of proven commercial monitoring tools acting through a dedicated encryption connection that regularly assesses resources and performance of your database systems. The software provides monitoring of various resources and sends alerts to our Aximsoft team. In addition, members of your customer’s staff can also be alerted.

We use many tools of trade including SQL traces, SQL profiler, error logs, system monitor etc.,

Our operational infrastructure includes best practices, standards and procedures implemented by experienced Microsoft Certified professionals, along with sophisticated software for system monitoring and reporting, escalation notification, issue tracking and change management all accessible via an Internet-based Portal.

Features

• Determines the possiblity to improve performance
• Notification before your customers or users know there's a problem
• Redundant and secure monitoring - using industry-proven commercial monitoring tools at our centralized Operations Center
• Early detection and diagnosis, which improves system reliability, availability and performance
• Monthly reporting through our Online Portal to provide trend analysis and system recommendations
• Guaranteed response times to give you peace of mind
• Allows you to free your DBA resources to focus on core competencies

SQL Server Desired Configuration Monitoring, is aimed at reliable data availability.

Using SQL Server Desired Configuration Monitoring, we help IT groups apply Microsoft IT and IT Infrastructure Library best practices, processes, tools, and templates to establish baseline settings for each implementation of SQL Server 2005, to standardize these settings among multiple servers, and to automate ongoing configuration management.

Specifically, SQL Server Desired Configuration Monitoring helps your organization:

• Reduce the costs associated with nonstandard configurations
• Raise accountability through clear performance standards, precise measurement, and active communications
• Preempt problems by building effective plans for less disruptive change, product releases, and configuration management
• Create a culture of proactive management where accountability drives clear goals
• Transform change management from a reactive task into a planned and predictable activity

SQL Server Desired Configuration Monitoring starts by comparing your current configurations in SQL Server against Microsoft best practices, identifying out-of-compliance settings, and setting up a process for automating ongoing standards compliance.

As a proactive approach to managing change in the IT environment, SQL Server Desired Configuration Monitoring helps minimize the performance issues that invariably arise as configurations slip out of line.

SQL Server Desired Configuration Monitoring tools, templates, and best practices work together to maintain the ideal settings for SQL Server in the following ways:

Move to a predictable, metrics-based approach
One of the key tools of SQL Server Desired Configuration Monitoring, the Microsoft IT Change and Release Calendar, helps improve your ability to manage change by scheduling releases and implementing changes systematically.

Calendar information feeds into another important SQL Server Desired Configuration Monitoring tool, the Microsoft IT Change, Release, and Configuration Management Scorecard, to capture the configuration history, measure performance, and track trends. As the heart of SQL Server Desired Configuration Monitoring metrics-based reporting, the scorecard is an indispensable tool for targeting improvements.

Reduce the risk of system failure
Having a proactive release schedule in hand will help you minimize disruptions following the release of each new product, product update, or an inadvertent administrative error. From there, you can apply Microsoft IT release policies to develop the framework and parameters for making decisions around future releases and their target groups.

Release policies are accompanied by Microsoft IT release plans, which explain how to implement the appropriate policies for hardware and software in each technology area and how to optimize release schedules and timelines.

Maintain standard configurations over time
Optimizing the security configurations for SQL Server helps reduce the problems inherent in any complex, distributed-computing environment. Another DCM component, Configuration Templates for hardware, software, and SQL Server, provides the configuration settings that Microsoft IT uses for SQL Server and the services it provides, such as analysis, notification, and integration services.

Once accurate values are in place for each setting, the SQL Server Desired Configuration Monitoring tool continually informs IT when unauthorized or inadvertent changes have been made to baseline settings. By knowing what is out of compliance, you will be able to take immediate steps to resolve issues before they become serious problems.

Generate performance data for greater accountability
Metrics-based reporting using reporting formats from Microsoft IT provides hard data for making tangible improvements. By defining targets and measuring against them, your IT organizations can intelligently allocate limited resources and target the most critical areas for improvement.