eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: MySQL Enterprise Monitor

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: MySQL Enterprise Monitor
Published: Jan 3, 2008
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: MySQL Enterprise Monitor

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: MySQL Enterprise Monitor

The Enterprise Monitor Dashboard provides a quick overview of monitored servers and their basic state of affairs (see far right, in the Heat Chart), as well as graphs that show trend information.


eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: MySQL Enterprise Monitor – Enterprise Monitor Advisors

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Enterprise Monitor Advisors, shown in a list here, are the distillation of MySQL expert knowledge. They are provided in the form of rules that can be run by agents against database servers to determine database health and configuration.


eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: MySQL Enterprise Monitor – Rule Definition

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MySQL DBAs can take prewritten rules and craft them to look for specific characteristics. There is plenty of room to document what a rule is supposed to do and to provide advice about what actions should be taken when a particular situation is encountered


eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: MySQL Enterprise Monitor – Graphs

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This graph shows the amount of virtual memory on several monitored MySQL servers.


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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: MySQL Enterprise Monitor – Events

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Enterprise Monitor tracks events on monitored systems. The system can send SNMP alerts and e-mail messages when trouble conditions are found.

Cameron Sturdevant

Cameron Sturdevant is the executive editor of Enterprise Networking Planet. Prior to ENP, Cameron was technical analyst at PCWeek Labs, starting in 1997. Cameron finished up as the eWEEK Labs Technical Director in 2012. Before his extensive labs tenure Cameron paid his IT dues working in technical support and sales engineering at a software publishing firm . Cameron also spent two years with a database development firm, integrating applications with mainframe legacy programs. Cameron's areas of expertise include virtual and physical IT infrastructure, cloud computing, enterprise networking and mobility. In addition to reviews, Cameron has covered monolithic enterprise management systems throughout their lifecycles, providing the eWEEK reader with all-important history and context. Cameron takes special care in cultivating his IT manager contacts, to ensure that his analysis is grounded in real-world concern. Follow Cameron on Twitter at csturdevant, or reach him by email at cameron.sturdevant@quinstreet.com.

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