KBI 311330 Enhancement: New Rule To Monitor AlwaysOn Availability Groups Status In Argent for SQL Server

Version

Argent Advanced Technology 3.1A-1510-T9 and earlier

Date

Tuesday, 22 December 2015

Summary

Argent Advanced Technology has been enhanced with a new Rule category ‘AlwaysOn Availability Groups Status Rules’ under ‘Best Practice Configuration Checks’ in Argent for SQL Server to monitor the status of SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups

Technical Background

The AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature is a disaster-recovery solution for Microsoft SQL Server databases

It supports failover environment for SQL Server databases

Argent for SQL Server is enhanced with ‘AlwaysOn Availability Groups Status Rules’ that alerts if AlwaysOn Availability Groups Status is disabled in a target SQL Server

Note: This feature is available only in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and above

Resolution

Upgrade to Argent Advanced Technology 3.1A-1601-A or later