We are getting ready to update the SQL Server Management Packs. Please install and use this public preview and send us your feedback (sqlmpsfeedback@microsoft.com)! We appreciate the time and effort you spend on these previews which make the final product so much better. We are introducing a new monitor in this release (see the first bullet below) based on customer feedback. You have now a better solution for monitoring backups of AG databases.

Please download at:

Microsoft System Center Management Packs (Community Technical Preview) for SQL Server

Included in the download are Microsoft System Center Management Packs for SQL Server 2008/2008 R2/2012/2014/2016 (6.7.30.0).

New SQL Server 2008-2012 MP Features and Fixes

• Added new “Availability Database Backup Status” monitor in Availability Group to check the existence and age of the availability database backups (this monitor is disabled by default)
• “Database Backup Status” monitor has been changed to return only “Healthy” state for the databases that are Always On replicas, since availability database backups are now watched by the dedicated monitor
• Fixed issue: “Active Alerts” view does not show all alerts
• Fixed issue: DB space monitoring scripts fail with “Cannot connect to database” error.
• Fixed issue: PowerShell scripts fail with “Cannot process argument because the value of argument ‘obj’ is null” error
• Fixed issue: Alert description of “Disk Ready Latency” and “Disk Write Latency” monitors displays the sample count instead of the performance value that was measured
• Fixed issue: Different file location info from “sys.master_files” and “sysfiles” causes error when Availability Group secondary database files are in different path
• Fixed issue: “DB Transaction Log Free Space Total” rules return wrong data
• Introduced minor updates to the display strings

New SQL Server 2014 MP Features and Fixes

• Added new “Availability Database Backup Status” monitor in Availability Group to check the existence and age of the availability database backups (this monitor is disabled by default)
• “Database Backup Status” monitor has been changed to return only “Healthy” state for the databases that are Always On replicas, since availability database backups are now watched by the dedicated monitor
• Fixed issue: “Active Alerts” view does not show all alerts
• Fixed issue: DB space monitoring scripts fail with “Cannot connect to database” error.
• Fixed issue: PowerShell scripts fail with “Cannot process argument because the value of argument ‘obj’ is null” error
• Fixed issue: Alert description of “Disk Ready Latency” and “Disk Write Latency” monitors displays the sample count instead of the performance value that was measured
• Fixed issue: Different file location info from “sys.master_files” and “sysfiles” causes error when Availability Group secondary database files are in different path
• Fixed issue: “DB Transaction Log Free Space Total” rules return wrong data
• Introduced minor updates to the display strings
• Deprecated “Garbage Collection” monitor and the appropriate performance rule
• Resource Pool Discovery is disabled by default for pools not containing databases with Memory-Optimized Tables
• “XTP Configuration” monitor now supports different file path types (not only those starting with C:, D:, etc.)
• Fixed issue: “Resource Pool State” view shows incorrect set of objects

 New SQL Server 2016 MP Features and Fixes

• Added new “Availability Database Backup Status” monitor in Availability Group to check the existence and age of the availability database backups (this monitor is disabled by default)
• “Database Backup Status” monitor has been changed to return only “Healthy” state for the databases that are Always On replicas, since availability database backups are now watched by the dedicated monitor
• Fixed issue: “Active Alerts” view does not show all alerts
• Fixed issue: DB space monitoring scripts fail with “Cannot connect to database” error.
• Fixed issue: PowerShell scripts fail with “Cannot process argument because the value of argument ‘obj’ is null” error
• Fixed issue: Alert description of “Disk Ready Latency” and “Disk Write Latency” monitors displays the sample count instead of the performance value that was measured
• Fixed issue: Different file location info from “sys.master_files” and “sysfiles” causes error when Availability Group secondary database files are in different path
• Fixed issue: “DB Transaction Log Free Space Total” rules return wrong data
• Introduced minor updates to the display strings
• Deprecated “Garbage Collection” monitor and the appropriate performance rule
• Resource Pool Discovery is disabled by default for pools not containing databases with Memory-Optimized Tables
• “XTP Configuration” monitor now supports different file path types (not only those starting with C:, D:, etc.)
• Fixed issue: “Resource Pool State” view shows incorrect set of objects
• Fixed issue: Invalid group discovery in SQL Server 2016 Always On

For more details, please refer to the user guides that can be downloaded along with the corresponding Management Packs.
We are looking forward to hearing your feedback at sqlmpsfeedback@microsoft.com.

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