Home
Administering
In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
System administration
These topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL Informix® database servers.
InformixHQ Guide
InformixHQ is a modern web console for visualizing, monitoring, and managing your Informix server instances. It is purpose built for ease-of-use, scaling out, and optimizing DevOps needs. It provides critical performance management capabilities, monitoring how key performance metrics are changing over time and tracking how efficiently Informix is running your workload even when you’ve stepped away from your screen. Its monitoring system feeds directly into a customizable alerting system so you can be immediately alerted via email, Twilio, or PagerDuty whenever an issue occurs on one of your Informix database server instances. InformixHQ is designed to be scalable to efficiently manage and monitor as many Informix database server instances as you need. Moreover, it's a tool that can be shared by the DBAs, the app developers, the ops engineers, and management and accessed from any desktop, laptop, or mobile device. InformixHQ is the centralized hub for graphical monitoring, alerting, and administration of your Informix database servers.
InformixHQ Agent
InformixHQ View Agents and Shutdown

Administering
In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
- System administration
  These topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL Informix® database servers.
  - List of utilities
    HCL Informix® includes utilities and applications that you can use to perform administrative tasks and capture information about configuration and performance.
  - Administrator's Guide
    The Informix® Administrator's Guide provides the information required to administer HCL Informix.
  - Administrator's Reference
    The Informix® Administrator's Reference includes comprehensive descriptions of HCL Informix configuration parameters, the system-monitoring interface (SMI) tables in the sysmaster database, the syntax of database server utilities such as onmode and onstat, logical-log records, disk structures, event alarms, and unnumbered error messages.
  - DB-Access User's Guide
    The Informix® DB-Access User's Guide describes how to use the DB-Access utility to access, modify, and retrieve information from Informix database servers.
  - High-Performance Loader User's Guide
    The describes how to use the HCL Informix® to load and unload large quantities of data efficiently to or from Informix databases.
  - Performance Guide
    The Informix® Performance Guide describes how to configure and operate your HCL Informix database server to improve overall system throughput and to improve the performance of SQL queries.
  - SNMP Subagent Guide
    The describes the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and the software that you need to use SNMP to monitor and manage HCL Informix® database servers and databases.
  - InformixHQ Guide
    InformixHQ is a modern web console for visualizing, monitoring, and managing your Informix server instances. It is purpose built for ease-of-use, scaling out, and optimizing DevOps needs. It provides critical performance management capabilities, monitoring how key performance metrics are changing over time and tracking how efficiently Informix is running your workload even when you’ve stepped away from your screen. Its monitoring system feeds directly into a customizable alerting system so you can be immediately alerted via email, Twilio, or PagerDuty whenever an issue occurs on one of your Informix database server instances. InformixHQ is designed to be scalable to efficiently manage and monitor as many Informix database server instances as you need. Moreover, it's a tool that can be shared by the DBAs, the app developers, the ops engineers, and management and accessed from any desktop, laptop, or mobile device. InformixHQ is the centralized hub for graphical monitoring, alerting, and administration of your Informix database servers.
    - What's new in InformixHQ
      This topic includes information about new features in InformixHQ.
    - Architecture
      InformixHQ consists of three distinct pieces that come together to give you a comprehensive monitoring and administering experience for Informix.
    - System Compatibility
      Before you install InformixHQ, make sure that your computer meets the system requirements.
    - Getting Started
      This topic provides a brief tutorial to help you get started with InformixHQ.
    - InformixHQ Concepts
      This topic covers some of the conceptual aspects of InformixHQ.
    - InformixHQ Server
    - InformixHQ Agent
      - InformixHQ Agent Setup
        This topic explains how to configure InformixHQ agent from InformixHQ UI.
      - InformixHQ Agent Configuration Parameters
      - InformixHQ View Agents and Shutdown
    - H2 Database
    - Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about InformixHQ
      These topics provide short answers to some frequently asked questions about InformixHQ.
- Backup and Restore Guide
  The Informix® Backup and Restore Guide describes how to use the Informix ON-Bar and ontape utilities to back up and restore database server data. These utilities enable you to recover your databases after data is lost or becomes corrupted due to hardware or software failure or accident.
- Enterprise Replication
  The HCL® Informix® Enterprise Replication Guide describes the concepts of data replication using Informix Enterprise Replication, including how to design your replication system, as well as administer and manage data replication throughout your enterprise.

InformixHQ View Agents and Shutdown

About this task

View Agents feature in InformixHQ displays the list of all the Agents' information and their status at one place, depending on user privilege to specific instance/server added in InformixHQ. This feature helps users to see consolidated view of all the agents.

Note:

If users have admin access to Informix server in InformixHQ, those users can initiate shutdown agent from this list.
If users have only read access to Informix server in InformixHQ, those users can only view agent status in this list.
If users don’t have any privilege to specific instances, Agent status for such instances won’t be visible to those users.

Procedure

Use the following steps to shut down an InformixHQ agent:

View Agents drop-down option is available in InformixHQ top right corner.
Clicking on View Agents will display the list of Agents with their respective status.
View Agents also displays the information about filters, pagination, and sorting columns availability.
- Searching: search for the data available using mentioned operators/key words.
- View Selection: Select the drop-down values to filter out the data.
- Pagination and Page limit: Move from one page to another page and count of records availability per each page with page limit.
Once any agent record is selected, Shutdown Agent button will be displayed (applicable only for users with admin access to that instance) and the count of selected records is also displayed as an information message.
On clicking Shutdown Agents button, confirmation pop-up will be displayed. Yes, shutdown will shut down the InformixHQ agent and No will cancel the InformixHQ Agent shutdown request and it will be remain on the same page.
If any error occurs while shutting down Agent, View Agents Status will show warning messages with warning icon.
If requested agents shut down successfully, then those agents will be available in offline mode.
If a user has only read access, that user will only view the agents but will not be able to select agent to shutdown from View Agents.