EZManage V4.0 Release Notes Document revision 1.08 (15.12.2013)
Release Features Feature #1- New UI New User Interface for every form including the ribbon controls that are similar to the Microsoft office 2013 look and feel. The new UI makes all features more accessible and simpler to use. The new UI contains a new categorized menu Feature #2 - Centralized alert management From now on all alerts will be in one center screen allowing the user to view multiple alerts from different servers \ databases. Feature #3 Capacity planning A new module allowing the user to follow the growth of his partitions, databases and tables \ indexes over a period of time. The module allow the user to cleverly plan his future storage requirements by predicting the estimated future sizes of tables, indexes, databases and partitions. Feature #4 Performance time related alerts added To allow more flexibility in the alert management, we added multiple performance related alerts that the alert management job knows how to track and report.
Major Feature #1- New UI Each form was given a ribbon control allowing maximum visibility, simplicity and a sparkling new look. New main menu including categories and visible icons. New Ribbon controls for all main forms (Some examples provided below). The ribbon control replaces traditional toolbars and menus with tabbed pages. Each page splits into categorized groups that contain various command buttons. Performance Monitor
Dashboard Blocking monitor Alert Dashboard Management Center: Database Backup & Maintanance Disaster Recovery Rules
Storage Capacity Planning (Database View) Scheduled Operations
Major Feature #2 - Centralized alert dashboard Features: 1. A centralized location to view all alerts from all managed servers \ managed databases. 2. Multiple options to monitor and handle your alerts: a. Read \ unread. b. Mark as important \ follow up c. Mark as unimportant d. Add comments 3. Filtering options 4. Outlook look and feel for faster user adaptability. 5. Ability to view alerts by categories or by activity type.
Ability to select multiple alerts using an advanced option menu
Major Feature #3 Storage capacity planning Managed Server View Features: 1. Allows the user to view past & current storage status for disk partitions and databases.
2. Gives the user the average daily growth for partitions and databases. 3. Allows the user to view the growth on a time line. 4. Allows the user to color by thresholds. 5. Gives future predictions for partitions and database growth. 6. Allows the user to view databases by DATA or by LOG alone. 7. Shows an accumulated chart for selected databases \ partitions. Managed Database View Features: 1. Allows the user to view past & current storage object status for tables and indexes (considers large objects only to allow simplicity) 2. Gives the user the average daily growth for tables and indexes. 3. Allows the user to view the growth on a time line. 4. Allows the user to color by thresholds. 5. Gives future predictions for tables and index sizes. 6. Allows the user to view tables by row count, used storage, reserved storage and unused storage. 7. Shows an accumulated chart for selected databases \ partitions.
Major Feature #4 Performance & time related alerts New Database Alerts: Allowing the user to select from multiple new options for monitoring and alerting on database performance alerts that occur over a given period of time. Database performance 1. Transaction count per second 2. Log usage 3. Log growth 4. Log flush waits New Server Performance Alerts:
Allowing the user to select from multiple new options for monitoring and alerting on server performance alerts that occur for over a given period of time: Database performance 5. Transaction count per second 6. Log usage 7. Log growth 8. Log flush waits Logical drives performance 1. Disk bytes per second 2. Disk read bytes per second 3. Disk writes bytes per sec Process Performance 1. Certain process CPU consumption 2. Certain process IO writes 3. Certain process IO Reads SQL Server Performance 1. Buffer cache hit ratio 2. SQL Server page hits per second 3. SQL Server page writes per second 4. SQL Server SQL Compilations per second 5. SQL Server SQL Re-Compilations per second 6. SQL Server SQL lock requests per second 7. SQL Server SQL lock timeouts per second 8. SQL Server SQL number of deadlocks