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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.
OneDB ExploreOneDB Explore 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 OneDB 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. OneDB Explore 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. OneDB Explore is the centralized hub for graphical monitoring, alerting, and administration of your Informix database servers.
ArchitectureOneDB Explore consists of three distinct pieces that come together to give you a comprehensive monitoring and administering experience for Informix.

Architecture

OneDB Explore consists of three distinct pieces that come together to give you a comprehensive monitoring and administering experience for Informix.

OneDB Explore Server

Java 8 based Jetty web server
Monitors and administers many Informix database servers
Connects directly to Informix databases servers to
- Gather live data from the system
- Perform administration
Connects to the OneDB Explore agents regarding
- Monitored data
- Alerts/events

OneDB Explore Agent

Lightweight Java 8 based monitoring agent
Installed alongside each of your Informix database instances
Only needs read access to database server
Can perform native command execution to gather OS statistics as well as database statistics

OneDB Explore User Interface (UI)

Modernized web UI for monitoring, managing, visualizing, and assessing your Informix database servers