 | Level: Intermediate Manjula Panthagani (manjulap@us.ibm.com), Advanced Support Engineer, IBM
Sergio R. Eng (sreng@us.ibm.com), Technical Support Engineer, IBM
16 May 2007 Learn to monitor database server activity for IBM®
Informix® Dynamic Server (IDS).
Examine various tools to monitor, diagnose problems, and manipulate IDS data. The
second in a series
of eight tutorials, use this tutorial to help prepare for the IDS 11 exam 918.
Objectives - Gain an understanding of how automatic monitoring works.
- Learn how administration API enables you to monitor system activity using
SQL commands.
- Find out how tasks and sensors are created in the scheduler and how data
is collected.
- Understand how system monitoring interface is used to collect data.
- Learn how onstat and oncheck utilities are used to monitor system.
- See how the message log is used to diagnose system problems.
Prerequisites
IDS 11 installation is covered in part 1 of this tutorial series. If you haven't
already done so, consider downloading and installing a copy of IBM IDS 11.
Installing IDS will help you understand many of the concepts that are tested on the System Administration for IBM IDS 11 Certification exam.
System requirements
You do not need a copy of IDS to complete this tutorial. However, you will get
more out of the tutorial if you download the free trial version of IBM IDS 11 to work along with this tutorial.
Duration
Less than two hours
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