Re: Assessing needs to install one more SQL server for MOM

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From: Marlon Brown (marlon_brownj_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/14/04


Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:36:50 -0800

I agree. I will buy a SQL server license now !!!.

"AnthonyThomas" <Anthony.Thomas@CommerceBank.com> wrote in message
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> They are harder to manage because now you have two sets of executibles
> that
> must be serviced and could be corrupted by OS fixes including two sets of
> perf counters, etc., etc., etc.
>
> I'd consider running MOM on another server that's less used. You should
> never run the monitoring process on the item that you are monitoring. You
> will affect the outcomes of those observations. Your management pieces
> should always be on another host and do their monitoring remotely.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Anthony Thomas
>
>
> --
>
> "Marlon Brown" <marlon_brownj@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%230%23r8eY4EHA.2196@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> And a poster kindly reminded that instances would do work here and allow
> me
> to configure the "Windows authentication only". From reading the SQL help
> files, I see that instances are generally not recommended for
> SQL-production
> environment (this is my case here, I will be using MOM in production
> environment).
> If you have any input on how SQL instances are doing in real world, please
> let me know.
>
>
> "Marlon Brown" <marlon_brown@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eBkAAqU4EHA.708@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>I am trying to avoid installing more SQL servers than what I need. This is
>> the scenario, please let me know if I have justification to buy a SQL
>> server
>> license to install MOM on local computer or I can use this on my MainSQL
>> server instead:
>>
>> a) I need to configure such SQL server for MOM and MOM best practices
>> require to allow only "Windows authentication". I have virtually dozens
>> of
>> third-party applications that rely on that SQL server and I do not know
>> if
>> by changing configuration to "Windows authentication only" to satisfy MOM
>> setup that could eventually break something down the road.
>>
>> b) I have to enable IIS on such SQL server box. CUrrently MainSQL server
>> has
>> no IIS enabled. That would be just a security issue, but I guess so many
>> applications require to have IIS installed these days...
>>
>> Do you think the above is enough to make me buy a SQL server license
>> dedicated for MOM ?
>>
>>
>
>



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