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How to discover and monitor a service with a wildcard for the service name

There are times when an application installs a Windows Service that uses inconsistent naming.  There might be a scenario where the Computer Name is inserted into the service name, or where random characters get generated in the service name. I wrote about this previously here:  https://kevinholman.com/2011/01/20/how-to-monitor-a-service-with-unique-names-across-multiple-computers-using-a-wildcard/   Now, I have…

How to transition to the SQL Version Agnostic MP

This is based on the SQL MP Version 7.0.20.0 and later. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56203 This MP supports discovery and monitoring of SQL 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, and later versions of SQL Server.  It is completely different than all previously released SQL Management Packs, the older ones I will refer to as…