Register SQL Server databases

You can register databases and geodatabases in Microsoft SQL Server to collect metrics and attribute information.

Prerequisites for monitoring

The following prerequisites are necessary for monitoring databases and geodatabases in SQL Server:

• The database instance must be running SQL Server 2016 (64 bit) or later.
• The database instance must have the TCP/IP protocol enabled.
• The firewall must allow communication between the SQL Server instance and the ArcGIS Monitor machine where it will be registered on port 1433.

  Note:

  If the SQL Server instance is configured to run on a different port, communication must instead be allowed on that port.

• The SQL Server user account that you use to register the database for monitoring must be mapped to the database and must be granted the View server state permission on the database instance. To monitor a geodatabase, the SQL Server user account's default schema must be the same schema in which the geodatabase system tables are stored.

Register databases for monitoring

You must be assigned the Administrator or Manager role to register components.

1. Access ArcGIS Monitor, if necessary.

   The Home page appears.

2. Click Monitoring.

   The Monitoring page appears with a list of components sorted alphabetically by component name.

3. Click Register component.

   The Register component wizard appears.

   Note:

   If you don't have sufficient privileges, Register component is not available.

4. Choose the ArcGIS Monitor Server or ArcGIS Monitor Agent machine that has network access to the component that you want to register and click Next.

   The Component type page appears.

5. Under Database, choose SQL Server and click Next.

   The Component details page appears.

6. Type a name for the component in the Component name text box.
7. Optionally, type a description for the component in the Description text box.
8. Optionally, click Apply Labels and choose the labels that you want to apply to the component.

   Tip:

   Type the name of a label in the Enter label name text box to search for a specific label. If the label that you want to add doesn't exist, type the name of the label that you want to create in the Enter label name text box and click Create new label to add the label and apply it to the component.

9. Click Next.

   The Connection page appears.

10. Type the fully qualified domain name and port number or IP address and port number of the database instance that you want to register in the Address text box.

    Tip:

    The default port number for SQL Server is 1433.

11. Type the name of the database that you want to register in the Database text box.
12. Provide the credentials for the database in the Username and Password text boxes.
13. Check the Require encryption check box if the database requires encrypted connections.
14. Click Register component.

    The component is added to the list of monitored components on the Monitoring page.

Once a component is registered, you can configure alert rules and add the component to collections.

Note:

Other component types, such as the enterprise GIS implementation's underlying hardware infrastructure and ArcGIS software, must be registered individually to enable monitoring.

Observers

The following table describes the observers that are responsible for collecting attribute and metric data:

Observer name	Description
Discover	The Discover observer scans for changes and manages attribute data across the registered SQL Server database. It also detects enterprise geodatabase schemas to enable related metrics. The default interval for this observer is 10 minutes; however, you can configure it to run at longer intervals since changes to the underlying database configuration are expected to be infrequent.
Metrics	The Metrics observer collects metric data across the registered SQL Server database. If an enterprise geodatabase schema is not detected by the Discover observer, geodatabase-related metrics are not collected. The default interval for this observer is 1 minute; however, you can configure it to run at longer intervals since significant database variations are expected to be infrequent.

Collected attributes

The subsections below describe the attributes that are collected for registered databases and geodatabases in SQL Server:

Database attributes

The following table lists the attributes that are collected for databases in SQL Server:

Attribute name	Description	Data type
Memory total	The total amount of physical memory for the database instance	Float
Started at	The last start time of the database instance	Datetime
UTC offset	The UTC time zone offset for the database instance	Integer
Version	The software version of the SQL Server instance	String

Geodatabase attributes

The following table lists the attributes that are collected for geodatabases in SQL Server:

Attribute name	Description	Data type
Geodatabase version	The version of the enterprise geodatabase	String

Collected metrics

The subsections below describe the metrics that are collected for registered databases and geodatabases in SQL Server:

Database metrics

The following table lists the metrics that are collected for databases in SQL Server:

Metric name	Description	Data type	Unit
Cache Hit	The percentage of requests served from the cache, as opposed to requests served from disk	Float	Percent
Connectivity - <Discover observer r_id>	The observer's ability to successfully connect to the component	Float	Percent
Connectivity - <Metrics observer r_id>	The observer's ability to successfully connect to the component	Float	Percent
Database Sessions	The number of open sessions in the database	Float	Total
Open Cursors	The number of open cursors in the database	Float	Total

Geodatabase metrics

The following table lists the metrics that are collected for geodatabases in SQL Server:

Metric name	Description	Data type	Unit
GDB Branch Version Conflicts	The total number of branch version conflicts in the geodatabase	Float	Total
GDB Branch Version Locks	The total number of locks on branch versions in the geodatabase	Float	Total
GDB Branch Versions	The total number of branch versions in the geodatabase	Float	Total
GDB Connections	The total number of active connections to the geodatabase	Float	Total
GDB Connections - editors	The total number of active editor connections to the geodatabase	Float	Total
GDB Connections - viewers	The total number of active viewer connections to the geodatabase	Float	Total
GDB Default Version Depth	The depth in the state tree of the default version	Float	Total
GDB Shared Locks	The total number of shared table locks in the geodatabase	Float	Total
GDB State Lineages	The total number of edits in the geodatabase for datasets that use traditional versioning	Float	Total
GDB Version States	The total number of states in the geodatabase for datasets that use traditional versioning	Float	Total
GDB Versions	The total number of versions in the geodatabase that use traditional versioning	Float	Total

Default alert rules

The following table lists the default alert rules that are configured for databases in SQL Server:

Metric name	Aggregation	Operator	Info threshold	Warning threshold	Critical threshold	Samples
Connectivity - <Discover observer r_id>	Average	Is less than	—	—	100	2
Connectivity - <Metrics observer r_id>	Average	Is less than	—	—	100	2
Cache Hit	Average	Is less than	90	—	—	3

Note:

The default alert rules in the table above are the rules that are configured for components when Monitor is first deployed. If your Monitor administrator has configured default alert rules for the Monitor deployment, the values for the rules above may vary.