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Setup Alert New Job created

rr_littletons

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November 30, 2019 at 6:34 pm

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Disregard this question, a trigger could complete this request, I need a way to be notify when a new job has been created on my SQL Server. Any ideas, I was thinking to write something to monitor inserts on sysjobs table.
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Site Owners SSC Guru Points: 80330 More actions · Answer 1

Thanks for posting your issue and hopefully someone will answer soon.

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heb1014 Hall of Fame Points: 3790 More actions · Answer 2

I would:

Create a log table
Insert all jobs into it
Create a proc to check for any jobs not in the log table
- if it finds anything, insert the job into the log table and notify
- these must be done within a single transaction
Create a scheduled job to execute the proc

Very simple. You could easily add this process to any server needing to be monitored.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004341 More actions · Answer 3

I'd create a morning report for all jobs. It's not difficult to do and will teach you a lot about the tables in MSDB. I render the report in T-SQL as HTML and when a new job appears, its modification data (which is a creation date the first time) is colored in Light Green for a week. That also helps me keep track of if and when a job changed.

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First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
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Andrey SSC Eights! Points: 840 More actions · Answer 4

rr_littletons wrote:

Disregard this question, a trigger could complete this request, I need a way to be notify when a new job has been created on my SQL Server. Any ideas, I was thinking to write something to monitor inserts on sysjobs table.

Years ago I created triggers for this table and they worked fine for several years helping to be notified (email) when anyone of my colleagues disable/enable jobs, create new ones and delete existing.

Have to admit, it's not recommended way, but it helped in my circumstances.

heb1014 Hall of Fame Points: 3790 More actions · Answer 5

Reports and dashboards are great. I use them regularly for monitoring. The downsides for me have been time delay and oversights. An alert could be set to near real-time. Also, an alert would not require me catching a warning on a report or dashboard.