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AdministeringIn addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
System administrationThese topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL OneDB™ database servers.
Administrator's ReferenceThe HCL OneDB™ Administrator's Reference includes comprehensive descriptions of HCL OneDB™ 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.
Administrative Utilities
The onstat utilityThe onstat utility reads shared-memory structures and provides statistics about the database server at the time that the command runs.
onstat -g monitoring optionsThe options that you can use with onstat -g command are used for support and debugging only. You can include only one of these options in the onstat -g command.
onstat -g dis command: Print database server informationUse the onstat -g dis command to display a list of database servers, the status of each server, and information about each server, including the location of the INFORMIXDIR directory, sqlhosts file, and ONCONFIG file. You can use this command in any database server mode, including offline.

onstat -g dis command: Print database server information

Use the onstat -g dis command to display a list of database servers, the status of each server, and information about each server, including the location of the INFORMIXDIR directory, sqlhosts file, and ONCONFIG file. You can use this command in any database server mode, including offline.

Figure 1: Syntax:

Example output

Figure 2: onstat -g dis command output

There are 2 servers found
Server        : ol_tuxedo
Server Number : 53
Server Type   : IDS
Server Status : Up
Server Version: IBM Informix Version 11.50.UC1
Shared Memory : 0xa000000
INFORMIXDIR   : /local1/engines/ol_tuxedo/dist
ONCONFIG      : /local1/engines/ol_tuxedo/dist/etc/onconfig.ol_tuxedo
SQLHOSTS      : /local1/engines/ol_tuxedo/dist/etc/sqlhosts
Host          : avocet

Server        : ol_9next
Server Number : 0
Server Type   : IDS
Server Status : Down
Server Version: 
Shared Memory : 0
INFORMIXDIR   : /local1/engines/ol_9next/dist
ONCONFIG      : 
SQLHOSTS      :
Host          :

Output description

Server: Server name
Server Number: Number of the server.
Server Type: Type of server
Server Status: Up means that the server is online, Down means that the server is offline
Server Version: Version of the server
Shared Memory: Location of the shared memory address
INFORMIXDIR: Location of the $INFORMIXDIR/ directory on UNIX™ and in the %INFORMIXDIR%\ directory on Windows™.
ONCONFIG: Location of the ONCONFIG file
SQLHOSTS: Location of the sqlhosts file
Host: Host name of the server

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