BMC PATROL for Microsoft SQL Server 9.6

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The BMC PATROL for Microsoft SQL Server product operates with a PATROL Agent and one or more of the PATROL consoles to monitor Microsoft SQL Server products. 

Release notes and notices Updated 31 Jan 2025

This section provides information about what is new or changed in this space, including urgent issues, documentation updates, service packs, and patches. 


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Date

Summary

References

January 30, 2025

Fixed issues reported in an earlier version.

September 21, 2021

Released a service pack with an option to generate events with detailed annotations for failed jobs, hung jobs, long-running transactions, and fixes to the issues reported in earlier versions.

June 18, 2021

Released a patch with fixes to the issues reported in earlier versions and inclusion of new perfmon parameters in some of the perfmon application classes.

September 23, 2019

Released a service pack with the following new features:

  • Option to consider a job as failed as long as its last run was failed
  • Option to configure query timeout

December 19, 2018

Added Microsoft Windows Server 2019 and Microsoft SQL Server 2019 support.

November 10, 2017

Added support for Microsoft SQL Server 2017.

March 28, 2017

Released a service pack with the following new features:

  • Full monitoring coverage of SQL Server 2016 perfmon catalogs
  • Enhanced Custom SQL query feature to annotate returned records

November 09, 2016

Added support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016.

September 20, 2016

Released a service pack with the following new feature:

  • Supports .NET framework 4.xx version

June 17, 2016

Released a service pack with the following new features:

  • Enhanced the KM to generate single event for each job or transaction 
  • Updated the minimum Data Collection Interval from 10 minutes to 2 minutes

December 15, 2015

Released a service pack with the following new features:

  • Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2016
  • Support for In-Memory Transaction Processing
  • Support for Columnstore Index feature

July 29, 2015

Released a patch to fix various issues reported in earlier versions

March 23, 2015

Monitor types and attributes

Information about monitoring elements of the KM.

Planning

Planning and system requirements.

Installing

Information about installing the product and migrating the product data.

Upgrading

Upgrade and migration process.

Configuring after installation

Required post-installation configuration tasks.

Troubleshooting

Issue resolution, error messages, logs, and contacting Support.

Using

Interface descriptions, using the product.

Documentation for older consoles

Documentation for using and configuring older consoles.
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