Status monitoring of a DB2 pureScale instance

Viewing the overall status of the components in a DB2 pureScale instance can give you a picture of how effectively it is functioning. You can view this information using table functions and administrative views. There are also DB2 command-line processor (CLP) commands and system commands that you can use to display operational status for your instance.
The information returned from these table functions, views, and commands provides you with a high-level view of the state of your DB2 pureScale instance. For example, you can use these interfaces to find answer to questions like the ones that follow: :
  • Are the hosts that comprise a DB2 pureScale instance active or not?
  • Which hosts are functioning as cluster caching facilities or member severs?
  • Are there hosts that are functioning as both a member and a cluster caching facility?
  • Are there hosts that are running more than one member?
  • Is a member running on its preferred home host?
  • For configurations with more than one cluster caching facility, which one is functioning as the primary server? What is the current state of the other, non-primary cluster caching facilities, PEER, or CATCHUP?
  • What is the current state of the members that comprise an instance? For example, has any member been stopped using the db2stop command? Or is any member currently waiting to fail back to its home host?
  • Do any cluster caching facility or member servers indicate an active alert that requires investigation?

Included in the information returned by many of these interfaces is state and alert information. The state of a host, a member or a cluster caching facility reflects the current operational capacity of the object in question. For example, a member can be STARTED, STOPPED, RESTARTING, WAITING_FOR_FAILBACK, ERROR or UNKNOWN.

Alerts are used to indicate that there is something that requires further investigation. If an alert is raised for one or more cluster caching facilities or members in an instance, problems might exist that require investigation.