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Server performance is the key factor in maintaining database availability.
Poor performance of mission-critical database applications means lost revenue
and business opportunities. A great part of managing your IBM Informix®
database servers infrastructure involves performing regular administration
tasks, responding to unexpected system events and keeping your servers
tuned for optimal performance.
To help DBAs optimize database resource use, performance and availability,
Sentinel™ automates proactive 24 × 7 operational monitoring of
IBM Informix® DBMS servers, provides an extensive array of
sophisticated diagnostics tools to tune critical performance parameters,
executes regular database maintenance tasks, enables setting of highly
flexible multi-level alerts to flag availability and performance
degradation problems and manages autonomic responses to server events in
real time — all from a centralized point of control. Continuous
time-series measurement data of the server's performance, system alert
events and task execution status flags obtained by Sentinel™ can
be recorded in the built-in SQL-compliant repository for subsequent
analysis.
Performance and availability management solution for IBM Informix® database servers is typically implemented in a client-server architecture consisting of:
- the Sentinel™ server, which runs as Microsoft Windows service or UNIX/LINUX background process and provides the automation infrastructure that is
responsible for performance monitoring and data collection, scheduled maintenance tasks execution and autonomic event response management functionality.
- the Server Studio™ JE client, which is responsible for user interaction and provides the necessary graphical tools
for configuring Sentinel™, creation and management of performance monitors, alerts and job definitions and also contains robust diagnostic
facilities to enable analysis of real-time performance and historical resource-utilization data collected by Sentinel™.
Sentinel™, together with Server Studio™ JE, provide wide-ranging functionality to support your organization.s vital
IBM Informix® databases . from initial design, development and testing, all the way through to production deployment and successful operational service.
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