Dashboard View
Back in the top choice in the left frame (our Dashboard view, shown in Figure 13), we go on to view alerts and customize the alerts shown/counted for each server group.
Figure 13. Server Manager > Dashboard View.
Some of the categories of alerts are as follows:
• Events alerts
• Manageability alerts
• Services alerts
• Performance alerts
• BPA results
Events Alerts
A noninteractive look at events on monitored
services, this is a complement to Event Viewer and Subscriptions.
SQL Servers 2012 (based on role and
functionality): Because we have monitoring tools capturing additional
details on these servers, our Dashboard is filtered for this server
group to report on SQL-specific event IDs only within Events (for
high-level support when a systems administrator is backing up our SQL
administrator).
Clicking the word Events underneath the SQL Server 2012 Dashboard widget brings up the option to specify event IDs, as shown in Figure 14. Also, the current alerts, if any, are listed at the bottom of the screen.
Figure 14. Filtering on Events Detail view.
