Administering Notification Services
When you administer instances of Microsoft SQL Server Notification Services, you perform tasks that maintain and update notification applications in a production environment:
- Managing and monitoring security to ensure that all systems, services, and people have adequate permissions; but that no unauthorized systems, services, or people have access to instance and application data.
- Starting, stopping, enabling, and disabling instances and applications.
- Backing up the instance and application databases and backing up instance and application definitions so that you can quickly restore instances and application after hardware or other system failures.
- Maintaining high availability for notification applications.
- Updating existing applications for new or changed features and updating instances to add or remove applications and delivery channels.
- Moving instances of Notification Services to new servers.
- Deleting instances of Notification Services.
- Monitoring applications to ensure that events are arriving and notifications are being generated and delivered, as well as monitoring the volume of data to help plan for system growth.
- Upgrading instances of Notification Services as service packs or new versions are released.
In This Section
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Contains information that describes the Notification Services security model and how to implement security. |
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Contains information about configuring Notification Services engines, starting and stopping instances of Notification Services, and enabling and disabling individual instances, applications, and components. |
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Contains information about backing up and restoring instances of Notification Services and exporting instance and application metadata. |
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Describes the options for maintaining high availability for instances of Notification Services. |
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Contains information about updating instances and applications after deployment. |
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Provides information about moving an instance of Notification Services to new servers. |
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Describes how to automatically and manually remove older event and notification data from application database objects. |
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Describes how to delete instances of Notification Services. |
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Contains information about monitoring instance and application performance and documents the Notification Services performance counters and reports. |
Related Sections
| Topic | Description |
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Contains information about installing Notification Services engine and client components. |
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Contains information and instructions for upgrading from Notification Services 2.0 or from an earlier edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. |
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Contains basic troubleshooting information and answers to frequently asked questions. |
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Contains instructions for performing deployment and administrative tasks for Notification Services. |
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Contains reference topics for the nscontrol utility, which creates, deletes, and manages instances of Notification Services. |
See Also
Concepts
Securing Notification Services
Other Resources
Deploying Notification Services
Building Notification Solutions