I use a combination of both SQL Agent e-mail alerts when the agent starts up and SCOM. What is the error message you are getting?

Fine.

Is this the first time you have gotten the error? Have you researched the error code any?

I would take a look at the MS recommendations first, to see if any...

Wish I could be some help, but the last time I worked with NetApp I passed on SnapManager for SQL as backups and restores were done at the volume level...

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I totally understand about not needing to look into it because the problem only crops up every 30 days. What I meant about being difficult to setup is that it...

Ah, I see what you're saying now. Looking online it seems that getting MSAs to work with SQL Server 2012 is quite difficult. Question, you are not on a cluster,...

First thing's first, you need to get a good backup of that database. Next run a DBCC CHECKDB to ensure that after years of neglect that it is still consistent.

After...

If the password for the service account that SQL Server or the SQL Server Agent uses changes the services have to be restarted in order for the new passwords to...

I do not see how any of those with the -S switch specified would work without an instance name. The -S switch needs an instance name defined. Additionally, if you...

The TOP keyword in your statement is only returning one value, however it is the outer query that is returning more than one row. If you want one row you...

Have you seen this TN forum post:

the merge process could not connect to the publisher

Looks similar to your situation.

A NetBIOS name entry and a FQDN entry are not considered duplicates.

If you are creating the linked server...

What is the status of the publisher? If you have SSMS on the local machine can you verify that you can connect to the subscriber and the publisher from it?

What happens when you try and do a manual failover on the SQL Server 2008 instance?