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My friend Lara Rubbelke, who works for Microsoft in
Minneapolis, sent me an email message the other day asking me what
I’ve heard from my students and other contacts about one of her
favorite SQL Server 2008 features called Central Management Server
(CMS). I remembered that I’d seen this feature in a few demonstrations
prior to the general release of SQL Server 2008, but I had to
reluctantly admit that I hadn’t really spent much time exploring this
feature and hadn’t seen a lot of discussion about it, at least not on
the blogs that I read. So maybe it’s time to change that.
One of the nicest things about having a CMS is that DBAs and users
across an enterprise can have the same registered servers available in
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). In SSMS 2005, each client stores
its own local server groups, so each person in an organization might
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new client machine, you have a completely different setup of available
servers and basically have to start from scratch.
If you set up a CMS in SSMS, you can define server groups and then the
definition of your groups will be stored in the msdb database of the
server that you’ve defined as the CMS. Then anyone choosing the same
servers as the CMS will automatically have the same server groups
defined and available. You can take advantage of this feature even if
you’re not using SQL Server 2008 in production yet, all you need is
SSMS 2008. You can add instances of SQL Server 2000 or later to the
server groups managed by your CMS.
Click
here to read the rest of Multiserver Management with SQL Server
2008's Central Management Server
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