First, we will register the Central Management Server. I have created an instance specifically for designating it as a CMS. How to Register Central Management Server in SSMS Connect and access the CMS server from another server inside the same domain using SSMS.Register QA Testing server and Staging server under the development server group, and HR DB and Sales DB under the production server group.Create server groups named Production servers and Development servers under CMS server.Designate an SQL Server instance as Central Management server.We are going to create a hierarchy as shown in the image below: In this demo, I am going to explain the process of configuring CMS. Configuring Centralized Management Servers Members of ServerGroupAdministratorRole can configure and administrate the central management server, and membership of ServerGroupReaderRole is required to connect to the central management server. To configure CMS, a user must have the ServerGroupAdministratorRole and ServerGroupReaderRole database roles on the MSDB database.
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See the image below: ServerGroupAdministratorRole and ServerGroupReaderRole RolesĬentral Management Server uses Windows authentication. For example, the SQL instance of server A has been designated as a central management server with multiple SQL servers registered which can be accessed using SSMS of Server B. And the best thing is that we can connect from other servers using SQL Server Management Studio. Additionally, there are a lot of SSMS add-ins that can automate our work and make it much easier. We can connect servers by using Object Explorer and execute T-SQL queries across multiple servers. Whatever action is performed on the central management server group, it applies to all the servers. It stores the list of registered SQL instances in a Central management server instance. Registered servers can be created in two ways:Ĭentral Management Server is an SQL server instance that organizes one or more central management server groups.
This task can be managed more efficiently using Registered Servers which are the ones of the SQL Server Management Studio’s hidden gems. Of course, first, you need to create new database in SQL Server Management Studio. Managing numerous database servers in an organization can be performed using the PowerShell scripts but it requires some complex PowerShell coding.
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