Multiserver Administration
Multiserver administration allows you to use one server to manage alerts and job scheduling for other servers from a central location. You centrally manage alerts through event forwarding. You centrally manage job scheduling by designating master servers and target servers.
Event Forwarding
If you have multiple instances of SQL Server running on multiple systems throughout the network, event forwarding is a time and resource saver. With event forwarding, you can forward application log events to a central server and then process those events on this server. Thus, rather than having to configure alerts on 12 different server instances, you configure event forwarding on 11 servers and have one server handle all the incoming ...
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