Getting started with the Operations Console

Before you use the IBM® InfoSphere® DataStage® and QualityStage® Operations Console to monitor your InfoSphere Information Server systems, you must complete these tasks.

1. To monitor your job runs, services, and system resources, you must complete these tasks:
   1. Create the operations database schema. See Creating the operations database schema.
   2. Configure the monitoring data that is stored in the operations database. You must set DSODBON=1 to enable the capture of monitoring data. See Configuring the monitoring data.
   3. Check the configuration of the monitoring system to ensure that the connection to the operations database is correctly configured. See Checking the configuration of the monitoring system.
   4. Start the DSAppWatcher process that starts and manages the data collection processes. See Starting and stopping the AppWatcher process.
   5. Check that the data collection processes are running. See Displaying the status of the AppWatcher process and all its managed processes.
2. To monitor your workload management queues, you must complete these tasks:
   1. Configure the workload management configuration properties. See Configuring workload management.
   2. Start the workload management process, called WLMServer, that provides information about the workload management queues. See Starting the workload management process.
3. Start the Operations Console. See Starting the Operations Console.
4. Run your InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage jobs.