Released: Oct 1, 2015

Updates in this release

Updates in v2.0

• Product name changed from SQL Elements to SQL Inventory Manager
• Enhancements to Discovery
  • Expands discovery collection criteria to those which Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) toolkit uses for SQL Servers.
  • Specify a listing of alternate credentials with admin privileges to use during the discovery process in case the original credentials are not valid.
• Enhancements to Inventory Management
  • Database Level Tagging – set tags and comment on databases distinctly from the server instances they reside upon.
  • Custom Inventory Fields – create custom inventory fields or labels at the server, instance &/or database level to further categorize assets.
  • Server & Database Decommissioning – mark any instances and databases taken offline to prevent erroneous alerting. Those servers will preserve asset and tagging information in the event you need to re-commission later.
  • View Application Information – see the applications running on an instance to understand how the server is being utilized and how often the applications are used.
  • Improved Scalability – monitor and manage thousands of databases.
  • Expanded Search – search by text string for specific instances or databases across the managed inventory.
• Role-based Security Enhancements
  • Specify different levels of user access including administrator, modify only and read-only.
• Integration with Idera Dashboard
  • Access a consolidated dashboard console to quickly view and navigate between the different products you use from Idera. SQL Inventory Manager will show key indicators in the dashboard view including:
    • Top Databases by Size
    • Top Databases by Activity
    • Tags cloud
    • SQL Server Licensing Info
• Additional Platform Support
  • Monitor and manage IaaS for Amazon RDS, SQL Azure and SQL Server 2000.