How can one/ do you monitor Discover health? successful live group sync etc?

[divadiow]

I have Centrastage monitors on the Discover Data Transfer and Discover Group Sync services so if they ever stop, we get a warning email. great.

 

But how are you monitoring whether or not group changes are coming through to SIMS successfully- it appears the services can be running fine, but any number of other issues still stop groups from updating.

 

I had an issue with the scheduled tasks not running because of reported permissions problem- the solution was to export the tasks to xml and re-import. all working now, but there's 6 months of missing statistics.

 

Another recent problem - the script to upgrade the Discover DB to 164 from 162 was crashing out because of an issue with the DAC framework. 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Dac.DacPackage' - I ended up migrating all DBs to a SQL2014 instance to get the DB upgrading.