Monitoring SQL Server Error logs

Hi,
We have a large number of SQL servers that we are supporting. Monitoring the
error logs for new errors is really a big task as we have to manually check
these error logs. I was hoping that some of you might have automated this
process and filtered out the unwanted messages from the error log and mail
only the genuine ones. If anyone can share it with the group, it will be
terrific as you will be giving us extra minutes of sleep each night.
Thanking you in anticipation,
Yoga
You'll need to define for yourself what a wanted message is.
One option is to use finstr to search for whatever it is you
are looking for - you can find examples in these articles:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=115519
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/viewscript.asp?scriptid=40
You can automate those in a job.
Another consideration is how you set up and use your alerts
and monitoring on the servers. For most things you can be
notified if monitoring is set up correctly.
Of course there are a lot of third party solutions but I
take it your looking for scripts and built in solutions.
-Sue
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:53:38 -0700, "Yoganarasimha Prasad"
<yogakiran@.gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>We have a large number of SQL servers that we are supporting. Monitoring the
>error logs for new errors is really a big task as we have to manually check
>these error logs. I was hoping that some of you might have automated this
>process and filtered out the unwanted messages from the error log and mail
>only the genuine ones. If anyone can share it with the group, it will be
>terrific as you will be giving us extra minutes of sleep each night.
>Thanking you in anticipation,
>Yoga
>