Add a new server to Central Management Servers's group/subgroup.

  • I have a CMS setup on my Monitoring server that can talk to all other servers.

    It looks like this

    I would like to know if there is a way(scripting) to add a new server to this monitoring group. I know I can rt click and register a new server but I want to run a SP rather than using the GUI. Coz when ever a new serve is created I want to run this SP that adds new server to this group.

    Please advise. Also does anyone know if we can query the metadata associated with CMS

    Ex:

    SELECT ServerName, RegisteredGroup FROM master/msdb.SomeTableThatSavesCMSData

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  • I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but I've always used powershell to do this. If you have a master list of your servers in a table somewhere, then it is really easy to grab those with powershell and register them in the CMS.

    Here is a good article to get you started with doing this in powershell:

    http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2658/using-powershell-to-register-all-sql-instances-into-central-management-server/

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  • I do not know too , I will experiment with it tomorrow and will let you know.

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  • Mr. Factor wrote a really good article on administering SQL Servers with CMS. In the article, he writes of the tables that you can use to manage your registered servers:

    https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/sql-tools/registered-servers-and--central-management-server-stores/

    I have used these tables to automate registration. I also have an email delivered to me when a server is added, so that I can investigate and categorize.

    Karl Lambert
    SQL Server Database Administration
    Business Intelligence Development

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