Spotlight Diagnostic Server must be able to maintain bi-directional communication with every monitored host. Additionally, it must be capable of sending and receiving data from every Spotlight Client application in addition to sending data to any properly configured Spotlight Cloud. Spotlight utilizes designated ports for such communication protocol which facilitates the monitoring. These ports also allows for provisioning...

Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise users would like to share the instances that are being monitored by Spotlight to their bosses and other employees without installing the Spotlight client on their desktop. The question is, how can this be done? Does the Spotlight Cloud ( www.spotlightessentials.com ) have this feature available? Can multiple emails be used to access one Spotlight Cloud account? Yes, multiple emails...

Use Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise to monitor performance health of Unix/Linux servers that host your SQL Server databases. Spotlight offers: Spotlight can monitor the following operating systems: Red Hat Enterprise 7.3 Ubuntu® 16.04 and 16.10 The required connection parameters are: Server Address, User, Password and Port Number. Our Release Notes document outlines the required user permissions in...

System administrators find themselves frequently applying required updates to their server hardware, operating system, security packages, or disaster recovery processes in order to maintain system and data integrity. Such enterprise modifications occasionally require updates to the server applications within the system. Consequently, administrators have to address the migration of these tools as well. The good news...

A Picture is worth a thousand words! Execution plans can help us identify the performance hog sections of SQL code that impact CPU usage and I/O operations. Addressing these bottlenecks can ultimately help us achieve the best execution times. What if an execution plan could go even beyond what we have in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). For example, what if we could see a plan based on environment specific metrics...