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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.
System Compatibility
Before you install InformixHQ, make sure that your computer meets the system requirements.

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
    - 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.

System Compatibility

Before you install InformixHQ, make sure that your computer meets the system requirements.

InformixHQ Prerequisites

The following table lists the software prerequisites for InformixHQ.

Software	Required Version
Informix Database Server	12.10 or higher
Java	1.8
Java (starting InformixHQ 2.4.1)	11 or 17

Note:

In Debian environment, InformixHQ requires "haveged" service to be up and running. To start the service, follow these steps:

sudo apt-get install haveged
update-rc.d haveged defaults
service haveged start

Java flavor

The following table lists the Java flavors and versions that InformixHQ has been tested with:

Java flavors	Tested on version	Tested on platform
IBM Java	1.8.0_331, 1.8.0_351(Windows)	AIX, Linux, Windows
Oracle Java	1.8.0_202	Linux, Windows
Open JDK	1.8.0_352	Linux, Windows

Following table lists the Java flavors and versions that InformixHQ 2.4.1 and higher has been tested with:

Java flavors	Tested on version	Tested on platform
IBM Java	17.0.6.0	AIX
Oracle Java	17.0.9	Linux, Windows
Open JDK	17.0.8.1	Linux, Windows

Secured connection

With Informix server
When connecting to Informix server having SSL connection in InformixHQ, following keystore formats are compatible:
Keystore type Extensions
Java KeyStore .keystore, .jks
PKCS KeyStore .p12
Note: GSKit version 8.0.55.17 available with Informix server bundle is used for creating p12 keystore.
The recommended keystore is p12 created using GSKit.
Within InformixHQ
Keystores supported for HTTPS connection:
Case 1: Browser with InformixHQ Server.
Case 2: InformixHQ Server and Agent.

Keystore type Extensions
Java KeyStore .jks

Supported Web Browsers

InformixHQ supports all the latest browsers. The following table lists the web browsers that InformixHQ has been tested with:

Web Browser	Version
Google Chrome	126
Mozilla Firefox	128
Microsoft Edge	126