DB2 Administration Server
The DB2® Administration
Server (DAS) is a control point used only to assist with tasks on DB2 database instances. You must
have a running DAS if you want to use available tools like the Replication
Center or the Development Center.
Notification and contact list setup and configuration
E-mail and pager notifications from the DB2 administration server (DAS) can be local
or remote. A contact list is required to ensure that notifications
are sent to the correct hostname.
DB2 administration server (DAS) Java virtual computer setup
The jdk_path configuration parameter
specifies the directory under which the IBM® Software
Developer's Kit (SDK) for Java™ to
be used for running DB2 administration
server functions is installed. The environment variables used by the Java interpreter are computed from
the value of this parameter.
Updating the DB2 administration server (Linux and UNIX)
On Linux and UNIX operating systems, DB2 database products can be installed
multiple times on a single machine. There can only be one DB2 Administration Server (DAS),
however, and it will be used by all of the DB2 copies. The DAS can be created from any DB2 Copy and will run at the same
fix pack level as that DB2 Copy.
If you apply a fix pack to that DB2 Copy,
you should issue the dasupdt command to update
the DAS.
Discovering and hiding server instances and databases
You might have multiple instances, and multiple databases
within these instances, on a server system. You might want to hide
some of these from the Discovery process.
Setting discovery parameters
The discover parameter
is set in the DB2 administration server (DAS) configuration file on
the server system, and in the database manager configuration file
on the client. In order to use the DAS effectively set the following
configuration parameters by using the command line processor: discover, discover_inst, discover_db.
First occurrence data capture (FODC) First occurrence data capture (FODC) refers
to the automatic capture of a set of diagnostic information when errors
occur. FODC is supported on DB2 administration
servers. This information reduces the need to reproduce errors to
get diagnostic information. The diagnostic information is contained
in a single location.