Database Inventory Management for SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and Amazon RDS for SQL Server

SQL Inventory Manager

Version 2.6

  • Adds platform support for SQL Server instances in cloud environments (Azure and Amazon, both IaaS and DBaaS), including discovery, health checks, custom metadata, and reporting
  • Expands health checks for monitoring for SQL Server instances running on Azure VM and Amazon EC2 to provide the same support as on-premises instances
  • Monitors Azure SQL Databases (Single, Managed Instances, and Elastic Pool) and Amazon RDS
  • Bug fixes and enhancements

Version 2.5

  • Ability to install SQL Inventory Manager Repository on SQL Server 2017 for Windows
  • Ability to monitor SQL Server 2017 on Windows and Linux
  • Provides additional views to see an organization’s SQL Server inventory through Host (physical, virtual, cloud) topology.
  • Organizations that have Physical Host Licensing with Software
  • Assurances can now see core license counts by physical host servers
  • Explorer view provides host information for all registered SQL Servers whether they are located on a physical or virtual host or the cloud
  • MS SQL Licensing View and Licensing View by Hosts have been updated to reflect the latest Microsoft Core License Calculations for SQL Server 2016 and above
  • Enhanced security standards with support for TLS 1.2
  • Bug fixes and enhancements

Version 2.4

  • Customized Reporting – Generate customizable reports to compile information about the SQL Server environment, including SQL licensing, inventory summary, chargeback, and health checks.
  • Profile Visibility – View a list of users and security profiles at the database and instance levels to determine the types of users that have privileges.
  • Repository Failover – Install, configure, and failover the repository to an Availability Group.
  • Performance and usability improvements.
  • Discovery of BI Services – Discover SQL BI services (SSRS, SSIS, SSAS) that are not running on DB Engine.
  • Support for AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Discover and monitor database instances on AlwaysOn Availability Groups.
  • Patch and Version List – Ability to compare builds for servers that are in your inventory vs what is the latest patch from MS for that version.
  • Enhancements to Discovery – Add new Discovery options such as Include/Exclude Domains and Organizational Unit.
  • Configure Health Checks – Set threshold values at risk warning alerts for the database Volume, Data and Data Logs.
  • Improved Import Capability – Ability to import additional data such as locations, owners, database tags for database instances that user wants to monitor.
  • Enhancements with IDERA Dashboard – Ability to promote tags to IDERA Dashboard to be used by other IDERA products.
  • Bug fixes and enhancements

Version 2.2

  • Number of cores and core factor information added to MS licensing view
  • Ability to configure default values of health check settings
  • Support for SQL Server 2016
  • Performance improvements to optimize for larger environments

Version 2.0

  • Product name changed from SQL Elements to SQL Inventory Manager
  • Enhancements to Discovery
  • Expands discovery collection criteria to those which Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) toolkit uses for SQL Servers.
  • Specify a listing of alternate credentials with admin privileges to use during the discovery process in case the original credentials are not valid.
  • Enhancements to Inventory Management
  • Database Level Tagging – set tags and comment on databases distinctly from the server instances they reside upon.
  • Custom Inventory Fields – create custom inventory fields or labels at the server, instance &/or database level to further categorize assets.
  • Server & Database Decommissioning – mark any instances and databases taken offline to prevent erroneous alerting. Those servers will preserve asset and tagging information in the event you need to re-commission later.
  • View Application Information – see the applications running on an instance to understand how the server is being utilized and how often the applications are used.
  • Improved Scalability – monitor and manage thousands of databases.
  • Expanded Search – search by text string for specific instances or databases across the managed inventory.
  • Role-based Security Enhancements
  • Specify different levels of user access including administrator, modify only and read-only.
  • Integration with Idera Dashboard
  • Access a consolidated dashboard console to quickly view and navigate between the different products you use from Idera. SQL Inventory Manager will show key indicators in the dashboard view including:
  • Top Databases by Size
  • Top Databases by Activity
  • Tags cloud
  • SQL Server Licensing Info
  • Additional Platform Support
  • Monitor and manage IaaS for Amazon RDS, SQL Azure and SQL Server 2000.
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