An easier but potentially less reliable way to monitor MS-SQL would be to create a job in the SQL Server Agent that exported the result of SELECT @@VERSION or some similar query to a file in a known location that you can access from the Mon server and then do a simple time stamp check to see if the file has been updated recently. William Bartholomew
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