SSMS 2012 - Central Management Servers

Question

How does the Central Management Servers work?
I found
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb934126(v=sql.110).aspx
So, step 1: I registered server (looks to me like a group name);
step 2: I registers my SQL Server instances under that registered server (New Server Registration)
step 3: In theory, I can right click on the name on step 1 and choose New Query. And I can issue something like
SELECT DISTINCT name
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory a, msdb.dbo.sysjobs b
WHERE a.job_id = b.job_id
AND a.run_status = 0 --is fail, 1 is pass
AND convert(varchar(8),a.run_date, 112) = convert(varchar(8),dateadd(dd,-1,getdate()), 112)
ORDER BY b.name
and I should get all the jobs for each server (from step 2) that failed yesterday.
So can I re-run the failed job from Central Management Servers? Or was my example above the only purpose of Central Management Servers?

Answer 1

Hi,
You can execute this query in order to find which server you are working with right now:
SELECT @@SERVERNAME
* Try to add more then one server, under the
server group, that you created. Next you can execute to those servers using "right click" -> "new query"
* If
you want to execute on all servers UNDER (not including) the "host server" which is the
Central Management Server or in other name the "servers group", then use the right click on the server name from step 1 (Central Management Server).
think on the step 1 as an host server. This is the Central Management Server. You do not execute in this server, but from this server. You can use this server in step 2 again if you want.
Here in this image i added 3 servers in the group. When I right click on the .\SQL2014 and chose "new query" then this query execute on all those servers in the group. and I got the results as one SET
  Ronen Ariely
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