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Oracle® Enterprise Manager

System Monitoring Plug-in Installation Guide for Microsoft SQL Server

Release 8 (3.3.3.1.0)

E12776-01

August 2008

This document provides a brief description about the Oracle System Monitoring Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server, details on the versions the plug-in supports, prerequisites for installing the plug-in, and step-by-step instructions on how to download, install, verify, and validate the plug-in.

Description

The System Monitoring Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server extends Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control to add support for managing Microsoft SQL Server instances. By deploying the plug-in within your Grid Control environment, you gain the following management features:

Versions Supported

This plug-in supports the following versions of products:

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites must be met before you can deploy the plug-in:

Configure the Management Agent to Deploy the Plug-In

To configure the Agent,you must first ensure that the user starting the Agent service belongs to the Local Administrators Group. Also, you must set the preferred credentials on all Agents where you want to deploy the plug-in. To do so, follow the instructions given in the following sections.

Assigning Advanced Privileges to User

To assign advanced privileges, do the following:

  1. Locally on the Microsoft Windows node hosting the Agent, check that the user starting the Agent service belongs to the Local Administrators Group. If not, add it.

  2. Open the Local Security Settings Windows Tool and give the following Advanced Privileges to the user starting the Agent service:

    • Act as part of the operating system

    • Adjust memory quotas for a process

    • Logon as batch job

    • Replace a process level token

  3. Restart the Agent service if it is running.

  4. Set the Preferred Credentials for the Host and the Agent in the Grid Control. For more information, see .

    • The OS user set in the Preferred Credentials must belong to the Local Administrators Group.

    • This OS user must have the following Advanced Privileges:

      • Act as part of the operating system

      • Adjust memory quotas for a process

      • Logon as batch job

      • Replace a process level token

Setting and Validating Preferred Credentials

To set the preferred credentials on all Agents where you want to deploy the plug-in, do the following:

  1. In Enterprise Manager Grid Control, click Preferences.

  2. In the Preferences page, click Preferred Credentials in the left pane.

    The Preferred Credentials page appears.

  3. For the corresponding Target Type, for the Host target type, from the Set Credentials column, click the icon.

  4. In the Host Preferred Credentials page, in the Target Credentials section, for the host that is running the Management Agent where the plug-in has to be deployed, specify the user name and password.

  5. After setting the credentials, on the same page, click Test. If you test runs successfully, your credentials are set correctly.

  6. Run the OS Command job for the Management Agent where the plug-in has to be deployed.

    • Log in to Enterprise Manager Grid Control.

    • Click the Jobs tab.

    • In the Job Activity page, from the Create Job list, select OS Command, and click Go.

    • Fill up the details required in the following pages, and click Submit to run the job. If the job runs successfully, your credentials are set correctly.

Deploying the Plug-in

After you ensure that the prerequisites are met, follow these steps to deploy the plug-in .

Note:

If you want to perform local monitoring of Microsoft SQL Server Clusters, then:

  • Deploy the plug-in on each node of the cluster where the local Agent is running. Local Agent is the agent running on each node of the cluster. Do not deploy on the virtual host.

  • Repeat step 9, 10, and 11.

  • Navigate to the bin directory of Virtual Agent Service host and run the following command. [On this Virtual Agent Service home page, if the Add drop-down list does not list the target name Microsoft SQL Server, then refresh the home page].

    .\emctl reload agent

  1. Download the SQL Server Plug-in archive to your desktop or computer on which the browser is launched. You can download the archive from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

  2. Log into Enterprise Manager Grid Control as a Super Administrator.

  3. Click the Setup link in the upper right corner of the Grid Control Home page, then click the Management Plug-ins link on the left side of the Setup page.

  4. Click Import.

  5. Click Browse and select the plug-in archive.

  6. Click List Archive.

  7. Select the plug-in and click OK.

  8. Verify that you have set preferred credentials on all Agents where you want to deploy the plug-in.

  9. In the Management Plug-ins page, click the icon in the Deploy column for the SQL Server plug-in. The Deploy Management Plug-in wizard appears.

  10. Click Add Agents, then select one or more Agents to which you want to deploy the plug-in. The wizard reappears and displays the Agent you selected.

  11. Click Next, then click Finish.

    If you see an error message stating that the preferred credential is not set up, go to the Preferences page and add the preferred credentials for the Agent target type.

    If there are no errors, then you will see the following screen:

    Figure 1 Successful Deployment

    Successful Deployment

  12. To check the deployment status, go to Related Links and click the link Deployment Status.

Enabling and Finding TCP/IP Port Information

The following sections provide information you require to enable the TCP/IP port and to find the TCP/IP port for a particular SQL server instance.

Enabling TCP/IP Port

For SQL Server 2000

  1. From the SQL Server Enterprise Manager, right-click the SQL Server instance in the left panel and select Properties. SQL Server Properties dialog box appears.

  2. In General tab, click Network Configuration. The SQL Server Network Utility dialog box appears.

  3. Ensure that TCP/IP is listed in the Enabled protocols list.

For SQL Server 2005

  1. From the SQL Server Configuration Manager, select SQL Server 2005 Network Configuration in the left panel and navigate to the SQL Server instance.

    The right panel displays all protocols for the specified SQL Server instance and their status.

  2. Ensure that TCP/IP is enabled.

  3. (If TCP/IP is disabled), right-click TCP/IP and select Properties. The TCP/IP Properties dialog box appears.

  4. In the Protocol tab, select enabled, and click Apply.

  5. Restart the SQL Server instance.

Finding TCP/IP Port

After enabling the TCP/IP protocol, restart the SQL Server to apply the changes. After restarting the server, follow the steps given in the previous section, that is, to identify the TCP/IP port number.

Alternatively, use the registry editor to find the TCP/IP port number for a particular SQL Server instance:

  • (Non-default SQL Server instance) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\<Instance Name>\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib\Tcp

  • (Default SQL Server instance) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSSQL Server\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib\Tcp

The TCP Port provides the port number.

Enabling SQL Authentication or Mixed Authentication

Modify the permissions for database authentication so that you enable SQL authentiation or mixed authentication, and set sysadmin role for the database user that you are going to use for discovering the target and running jobs.

On the SQL Server, for the user you are going to use for monitoring and running jobs, set the write permissions by following these steps:

Note:

If you do not have a user, then create one. To do so, from the task bar, go to Start, select Settings, and then Control Panel. In the Control Panel, double-click Users and Passwords and click Add in the Users tab.

  1. In the Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools and then Computer Management. The Computer Management screen appears.

  2. In the left panel, go to Services and Applications and select the Microsoft SQL Server and navigate down to Security.

  3. Double-click Security, and select Logins.

  4. Right-click Logins and click NewLogin. The SQL Server Login Properties-New Login dialog box appears.

  5. Click General tab, specify the name for the new login, select SQL Server Authentication and specify a unique password to use when connecting to the server using SQL Authentication.

  6. Click Server Roles tab and ensure that sysadmin is selected in the Server Roles section.

  7. Click Database Access tab, and ensure that in the Permit in Database Role section, no role is selected for any database.

See Also:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa933458(SQL.80).aspx

Installing and Enabling Windows Management Instrumentation

(For SQL Server 2000) Install and enable Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) provider of the SQL Server. Enable support by running the setup.exe file located in the SQL Server Installation CD:

<CD_Drive>/x86/other/wmi

Modifying Permissions

Modify Windows Management Instrumentation Control permissions, registry permissions, and DCOM remote access permissions as described in the section Modifying Permissions in the Enterprise Manager System Monitoring Plug-in Troubleshooting Guide available at the following location:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oem.html

Adding Instances for Monitoring

Follow these steps to add the plug-in target to Grid Control for central monitoring and management:

  1. From the Agent home page where the plug-in was deployed, select the Microsoft SQL Server target type from the Add drop-down list, then click Go. The Add Microsoft SQL Server page appears.

    Note:

    If you are performing a local monitoring of SQL Server Cluster, then the Agent home page will be the Virtual Agent Service home page.

  2. Provide the following information for the properties:

    • Name — Unique target name across all the Grid Control targets, such as SqlServer2k_Hostname. This is the display name in the Grid Control. It represents this SQL Server target across all user interfaces within Grid Control.

    • JDBC URL — URL for JDBC.

      For example,

      jdbc:sqlserver://<host>:<port>

      Note:

      You can specify either IP Address or host name. However, ensure that the host name can be resolved consistently on the network. Standard TCP tools such as "nslookup" and "traceroute" can be used to verify the host name. Also, if you are monitoring a Microsoft SQL Server Cluster, then specify the IP address or host name of the virtual host of the cluster.

    • JDBC Driver — (Optional) SQL+Driver JDBC driver class name.

      For example,

      com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver

    • Database Username — Valid user for the database in sysadmin fixed server role.

    • Password for the Database User — Corresponding password for the database user

    • System Username — Valid host user name. Required only for remote Agent monitoring. For more information, see "Configuring Remote Connections to Monitor Targets".

    • System Password — Password for the Username. Required only for remote Agent monitoring.

    • Role — (Optional)

    Note:

    For Oracle Management Service 10g Release 3 (10.2.0.3), if you do not reenter the encrypted parameters (Database Username, Password for the Database User, System Username, System Password) before clicking OK, you might encounter an error informing you that the login failed.

  3. Click Test Connection to make sure the parameters you entered are correct.

  4. Reenter the encrypted parameters from step 2 if the connection test was successful, then click OK.

    Figure 2 Add Microsoft SQL Server

    Add Microsoft SQL Server

Important:

If you do not reenter the encrypted parameters before clicking OK, you might encounter an error suggesting that the login failed.

After you deploy and configure the plug-in to monitor one or more targets in the environment, you can customize the monitoring settings of the plug-in. This alters the collection intervals and threshold settings of the metrics to meet the particular needs of your environment. If you decide to disable one or more metric collections, this could impact the reports that the metric is a part of.

Verifying and Validating the Plug-in

After waiting a few minutes for the plug-in to start collecting data, use the following steps to verify and validate that Enterprise Manager is properly monitoring the plug-in target:

  1. Click the SQL Server target link from the Agent home page Monitored Targets table.

    The Microsoft SQL Server home page appears.

    Figure 3 Microsoft SQL Server Home Page

    Surrounding text describes Figure 3 .

  2. Verify that no metric collection errors are reported in the Metrics table.

  3. Ensure that reports can be seen and no errors are reported by clicking the Reports property page.

  4. Ensure that configuration data can be seen by clicking the View Configuration link in the Configuration section. If configuration data does not immediately appear, click Refresh in the View Configuration page.

Upgrading the Plug-in

Follow these steps to upgrade the plug-in:

  1. Download the SQL Server Plug-in archive to your desktop or computer on which the browser is launched. You can download the archive from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

  2. Log into Enterprise Manager Grid Control as a Super Administrator.

  3. Click the Setup link in the upper right corner of the Grid Control Home page, then click the Management Plug-ins link on the left side of the Setup page.

  4. Click Import.

  5. Click Browse and select the plug-in archive that you have downloaded for upgrading.

  6. Click List Archive.

  7. Select the plug-in and click OK.

  8. Verify that preferred credentials are set on all Agents to which you want to deploy the plug-in.

  9. Blackout the Microsoft SQL Server targets for agents to which you want to deploy higher version of the plug-in. Ensure that you select immediate blackout.

  10. In the Management Plug-ins page, click the icon in the Deploy column for the SQL Server plug-in. The Deploy Management Plug-in wizard appears.

  11. Click Add Agents, then select one or more Agents to which you want to deploy the plug-in. The wizard reappears and displays the Agent you selected.

  12. Click Next, then click Finish.

    If you see an error message stating that the preferred credential is not set up, go to the Preferences page and add the preferred credentials for the Agent target type.

  13. Remove blackout for the targets (required only if Step 9 applies).

Undeploying the Plug-in

Follow these steps to undeploy the plug-in from an Agent:

  1. Log in to Enterprise Manager Grid Control as a Super Administrator.

  2. Select the Targets tab, then the All Targets subtab. The All Targets page appears.

  3. Select the Microsoft SQL Server Plug-in target and click Remove. You must do this step for all targets of the specific version of the plug-in.

  4. Make sure that the preferred credentials are set on the Agents where the plug-in is deployed.

  5. Click the Setup link in the upper right corner of the All Targets page, then click the Management Plug-ins link on the left side of the Setup page. The Management Plug-ins page appears.

  6. Click the icon in the Undeploy column for the Microsoft SQL Server Plug-in. The Undeploy Management Plug-in page appears.

  7. Check all the Agents that are currently deployed with the Microsoft SQL Server Plug-in and click OK.

    You must undeploy the plug-in from every Agent in the system to completely remove it from the enterprise.

  8. Select the Microsoft SQL Server Plug-in on the Management Plug-in page and click Delete.

Configuring Connections

This section provides details about configuring connections for monitoring targets and executing jobs.

Configuring Remote Connections to Monitor Targets

If you want to monitor targets using remote Agents, then Oracle recommends that you do the following security configurations on every system where SQL Server target resides.

  • Set WMI namespace security (Refer to the 'Modifying Windows Management Instrumentation Control Permissions' section of the Oracle Enterprise Manager System Monitoring Plug-in Troubleshooting Guide.)

  • Restrict access to the registry from a remote computer (Refer to the 'Modifying Registry Permissions' section of the Oracle Enterprise Manager System Monitoring Plug-in Troubleshooting Guide.)

  • Set DCOM Security to allow user to access a computer remotely (Refer to the 'Modifying DCOM Remote Access Permissions' section of the Oracle Enterprise Manager System Monitoring Plug-in Troubleshooting Guide.)

Configuring Connections to Execute Jobs

If you want to execute jobs using local or remote Agents, then Oracle recommends that you do the following security configurations on every system where SQL Server target resides.

  • Set WMI namespace security (Refer to the 'Modifying Windows Management Instrumentation Control Permissions' section of the Oracle Enterprise Manager System Monitoring Plug-in Troubleshooting Guide.)

  • Set DCOM Security to allow user to access a computer remotely (Refer to the 'Modifying DCOM Remote Access Permissions' section of the Oracle Enterprise Manager System Monitoring Plug-in Troubleshooting Guide.)

For configuration details, refer to the following:

Creating and Editing Jobs

To create and edit jobs, follow these steps:

Note:

Currently jobs are supported only for stand-alone SQL Server instances. Jobs submitted for SQL Server 2005 cluster instances will fail.

  1. In Grid Control, click the Jobs tab. Grid Control displays the Job Activity page.

  2. Select a job type from the Create Job menu and click Go.

    You can select one of these:

    • Microsoft SQL Server and/or SQL Agent Start

    • Microsoft SQL Server and/or SQL Agent Stop

    • Microsoft SQL Server Pause or Resume

    Note:

    If you want to edit a job, then select an existing job from the list and click Edit.

  3. In the General tab of the Create <Job Type> Job page, provide a name for the job and add the individual targets or one composite target such as a Group.

    Note:

    If you are editing a job, then modify the job name and the selected targets.

  4. In the Parameters tab of the Create <Job Type> Job page, from the Options menu, select an appropriate option to make the job function accordingly when it starts.

    You can select one of these options:

    Table 1 Job Parameters Options

    Job Type Available Options

    Microsoft SQL Server and/or SQL Agent Start

    • Start SQL Server and SQL Server Agent services

      (You will select this option when both, SQL Server and SQL Server Agent, are stopped or when SQL Server is running but the SQL Server Agent is stopped)

    • Start SQL Server service

      (You will select this option when both, SQL Server and SQL Server Agent, are stopped and if you want to start only the SQL Sever)

    Microsoft SQL Server and/or SQL Agent Stop

    • Stop SQL Server and SQL Server Agent services

      (You will select this option when both, SQL Server and SQL Server Agent, are running, when SQL Server is paused but the SQL Server Agent is running, when SQL Server is running/paused but the SQL Server Agent is stopped)

    • Stop SQL Server Agent service

      (You will select this option when you want to stop a running SQL Server Agent)

    Microsoft SQL Server Pause or Resume

    • Pause SQL Server service

      (You will select this option when you want to pause a running SQL Server)

    • Resume SQL Server service

      (You will select this option when you want to resume a paused SQL Server)

    Grid Control starts the SQL server and agent services according to the selection made.

    Note:

    If you are editing a job, then modify the options for that job.

  5. In the Credentials tab of the Create <Job Type> Job page, select an appropriate option for credentials.

    You can choose to use the preferred credentials that are already set or override the preferred credentials with new credentials. In either case, you need to provide the credetials for agent host and database host.

    To set the preferred credentials, click Preferences at the top-right corner of the Grid Control console. From the left-vertical navigation bar, click Preferred Credentials. Grid Control displays the Preferred Credentials page. On this page, you can set the preferred credentials

    Note:

    If you are editing a job, then modify the credentials set for that job.

  6. In the Schedule tab of the Create <Job Type> Job page, schedule the job.

    Note:

    If you are editing a job, then modify the schedule prepared for that job.

  7. In the Access tab of the Create <Job Type> Job page, define or modify the access you want other users to have to this job.

    Note:

    If you want to edit, then modify the access levels for that job.

  8. Click Submit to create the job.

Troubleshooting the Plug-In

To resolve various issues that you might encounter while using the plug-in, see the Oracle Enterprise Manager System Monitoring Plug-in Troubleshooting Guide available at the following URL:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/oem.html

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