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System Administration Certification exam 919 for Informix 11.70 prep, Part 3: System activity monitoring

Mu Yang (muyang@cn.ibm.com), Advisory Software Engineer, IBM
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Yangmu has worked in the Informix area for more than 10 years. He is experienced in database design, implementation, maintenance, and performance tuning with PMP and ITIL certifications. Yangmu has successfully helped many customers with upgrade, maintenance, and performance optimization projects.
Hedwig Fuchs (hedwig.fuchs@de.ibm.com), Advanced Support Engineer, IBM
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Hedwig Fuchs has worked within Informix Technical Support for the last 14 years. Before joining Informix she worked as a consultant and programmer. Within IBM she has specialized in working with the database engines. Her work responsibilities include analyzing problems, including reproductions and code analysis.

Summary:  In this tutorial, you'll learn about IBM Informix® database tools, the utilities to monitor the database, and how to diagnose problems. Learn how to use the system-monitoring interface (SMI) and the SQL administration API. This tutorial prepares you for Part 3 of the System Administration Certification exam 919 for Informix v11.70.

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Date:  28 Dec 2011
Level:  Intermediate

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About this series

Thinking about seeking certification on System Administration for Informix version 11.70 (Exam 919)? If so, you've landed in the right spot to get started. This series of Informix certification preparation tutorials covers all the topics you'll need to understand before you read that first exam question. Even if you're not seeking certification right away, this set of tutorials is a great place to start learning what's new in Informix 11.70.

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About this tutorial

In this tutorial, you'll learn about how to use the set of Informix monitoring tools to monitor and to diagnose problems. The material provided here primarily covers the objectives in Section 2 of the exam, entitled "System Activity Monitoring." Topics covered in this tutorial include:

  • Monitor and isolate problems using system databases
  • Message log
  • View information about the database server with Informix Utilities
  • View information about the database server using the Scheduler and the SQL Administration API
  • Concurrency and locking
  • Operating system tools

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Objectives

After completing this tutorial, you should know:

  • How to use the sysmaster database
  • What to find in the message log
  • How to use the onstat and oncheck utilities
  • How to use the dbschema utility
  • How to use the scheduler
  • How to use the SQL Administration API
  • The different types of locks
  • How to use operating system tools to monitor

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Prerequisites

To understand the material presented in this tutorial you should be familiar with:

  • The Informix environment, including the configuration file, parameters, installation, and administration
  • Informix concepts and terminology, including dbspaces, chunks, physical log, logical logs, and checkpoint

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System requirements

You do not need a copy of Informix to complete this tutorial. However, you will get more out of the tutorial if you download the free trial version of Informix Innovator-C Edition to work along with this tutorial.

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