New Post: Option for temporary excluding a policy
I've added some functionality to EPM. We are using EPM to monitor several instances at our customers. However, every customer has its own habits for example no backup taken in the weekend. This results...
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Getting this error when selecting from view v_EvaluationErrorHistory_LastEvaluation: Msg 536, Level 16, State 4, Line 1 Invalid length parameter passed to the RIGHT function.
View ArticleNew Post: Cannot find an overload for "PolicyStore"-on sql server 2016
Hi, I'm testing framework on sql server 2016 and windows 8.1 platform. When I executed the powershell script,I got an error message like below. .\EPM_EnterpriseEvaluation_412.ps1 -ConfigurationGroup...
View ArticleNew Post: Unable to open PolicyReports.sln file to perform the configuration
Hi All, On SQL 2014 server, we have setup the EPM framework and policies Able to evaluate the policies manually and as well via power shell But while configuring the reporting via SQL server reporting...
View ArticleNew Post: Timeout of Invoke-PolicyEvaluation
Sometimes Invoke-PolicyEvaluation fails with a timeout on some servers. Is it possible to set the timeout to a bigger value? Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ConnectionFailureException: Failed to...
View ArticleNew Post: Cannot find an overload for "PolicyStore"-on sql server 2016
This error indicates the PowerShell can't connect to your defined variable for PolicyStore in your EPM_EnterpriseEvaluation_412.ps1 file. If you open the file you will see that you need to define the...
View ArticleNew Post: Stopped working after a side by side of SQL 2016 install
This was odd the job didn't error it just ran and never put anything new in the tables. I was wondering why is was green all the time. This is the line that when I run it manually it fussed about a...
View ArticleNew Post: Removed servers still showing up on report
I see that the view that is using is called v_PolicyHistory_LastEvaluation and I have servers in the report/view from 6-20-16 and the servers haven't existed in a while. Any idea how these are suppose...
View ArticleNew Post: Removed servers still showing up on report
The servers are part of the data warehouse historical view which is probably why they're still showing up. I'll note this as an issue to address in future update. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone
View ArticleNew Post: How can I tell if I am running the latest version of EPM
The PowerShell script that I am executing is called 'EPM_EnterpriseEvaluation_412.ps1'. I have downloaded version 4.1.2.2 to my PC, and the PowerShell script has the same name. How can I tell if the...
View ArticleNew Post: How can I tell if I am running the latest version of EPM
Would have to check with Pedro but I believe the latest version published, although same name, should be correct version. There was minor fix he released which is why file name didn't change. Sent from...
View ArticleNew Post: How can I tell if I am running the latest version of EPM
So there is no way of knowing if the version that I currently have deployed on my server is the latest version?
View ArticleNew Post: How can I tell if I am running the latest version of EPM
You could use a utility like beyond compare to compare file contents Sent from my iPhone
View ArticleNew Post: Removed servers still showing up on report
I have a cleanupscript which I run daily to fix this kind of issues. In order to remove data from removed servers, run this:delete from [policy].[PolicyHistory] where evaluatedServer not in ( SELECT...
View ArticleNew Post: Poor performance with new Cardinality Estimator
I noticed a poor performance with the new cardinality estimator. In order to fix this you can either:switch to compatibilitylevel 120 for your database (MSSQL 2014) enable database scoped values to...
View ArticleNew Post: [SOLVED]: Invoke-PolicyEvaluation fails with 'Value cannot be null....
SOLVED I made a few changes in order to avoid the PowerShell's Invoke-PolicyEvaluation cmdlet fail. Hope it's as usefull as it was to me.# Evaluate specific Policies against a Server List # Uses the...
View ArticleNew Post: [SOLVED]: Invoke-PolicyEvaluation fails with 'Value cannot be null....
Perfect! Works for me with this code. I added back the code to delete the xml files as for some reason it wasn't cleaning up all of the time. I was playing around with this and found that without any...
View ArticleNew Post: Problem System.ArgumentNullException, Value cannot be null....
When i run this job "Execute EPM Policies - Weekly - Maintenance - Mode "Check"" only write in the table "System.ArgumentNullException, Value cannot be null. Parameter name: policy" in table...
View ArticleNew Post: CodePlex shutting down - Plans for EPM
Hi, I may be a little behind the curve here, but I have just seen that CodePlex will no longer exist next year. I have had a look on GitHub but I cannot see Enterprise Policy Management on there. Are...
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