Re: Which monitoring tool is best with Informix Online 7.12?

Greg McGregor wrote: >All, > >Am interested in exploring some monitoring tools for Informix Online 7.12 on HP-UX 9.04 (Soon to goto Online 7.23 & HP-UX 10.20). So far I have heard about BMC Patrol and db/cockpit. Which of these two is the prefered choice or are there others I should know about? > >db/cockpit problem >---------------------------- >At the moment I am attempting to start db/cockpit which comes packaged with Online 7.12. >Running the onprobe daemon AOK. Have setup all the necessary links in /etc/services and sqlhosts. I am attempting to run this on a HP Xterm. > >This is the error I receive: > >COCKPIT STARTUP-FATAL mmi_eat_extra_options: -55352: unable to open display '<NULL>' > >Unfortunately "finderr" utility does not have error numbers in that range. Nor does the db/cockpit user manual cover any error conditions. > >Can someone help me please. May be I'm wrong, but seems that the DISPLAY variable is not set (check it,of course this program should be run in X) Best Regards, Octav -- Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 21 20 96 NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 20 96 Chisinau (373) 2 24 00 83 Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo.moldova.net