In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
These topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL Informix® database servers.
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.
The HCL Informix® implementation of SNMP lets database administrators monitor Informix database servers and databases.
HCL Informix® includes utilities and applications that you can use to perform administrative tasks and capture information about configuration and performance.
The Informix® Administrator's Guide provides the information required to administer HCL Informix.
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.
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.
The describes how to use the HCL Informix® to load and unload large quantities of data efficiently to or from Informix databases.
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.
This section provides a brief introduction to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
You can configure an SNMP Network Manager to notify you when a specific event occurs.
You can issue a one-time data request to compare the configuration parameters of two database servers. You can issue periodic data requests to provide statistical information for assessing database performance or resource allocation.
All the information that OnSNMP provides is available from other sources, such as the system catalog tables, the sysmaster and sysutils databases, dbaccess calls, and the onstat utility.
The SNMP standard has two versions: SNMPv1 and SNMPv2.
The architecture for the Informix® implementation of SNMP depends on your operating system.
HCL Informix® products include a Global Language Support (GLS) feature, which lets you work with languages that use code sets other than the standard English code set. However, the SNMP protocols that OnSNMP supports (SNMPv1 and SNMPv2) do not recognize these different code sets.
This section describes the types of MIBs and the types of MIB objects that the HCL Informix® database server uses.
As a background task, OnSNMP periodically updates the contents of MIB tables that it derives from catalog information. The refresh control value determines the amount of time that OnSNMP spends refreshing these MIB tables versus the amount of time that it spends responding to queries from the master agent.
This section lists the files that are typically installed for the Informix® implementation of SNMP on UNIX™ and Windows™.
An SNMP Network Manager hides most of the structures of the Management Information Base (MIB). However, an understanding of this structure can help you comprehend the information that an SNMP Network Manager displays.
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.
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.
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.