Additional Configuration Task Information

For more information on most post-installation configuration tasks, see the IBM Informix: Dynamic Server Administrator's Guide. In addition, you can perform the following configuration tasks:

• If you installed IBM Informix Server Administrator (ISA), you can use it now to configure the database server.

  If you did not start ISA during installation, start it now:

  1. Log in as informix or root and enter the following command to start ISA:

     $INFORMIXDIR/ISA /sbin/isactl start

  2. Start your web browser and open:

     http://hostnamedomain_name:port_number/

  3. Log in with the user name and password you provided during installation.

     See ISA Installation.

  For more information, see the ISA online help.

• IBM Informix Storage Manager is automatically installed with the database server; however, you must configure it before it can work.

  For more information, see the IBM Informix: Storage Manager Administrator's Guide. For information on how to configure ON–Bar and ontape, see the IBM Informix: Backup and Restore Guide.

• You can ask your system administrator to modify the sample system startup script located in $INFORMIXDIR/etc/ids-example.rc (see the section on preparing UNIX startup and shutdown scripts in the IBM Informix: Administrator's Guide) so that your database server starts whenever the computer is rebooted (for example, after a power failure).

  The startup script should set the INFORMIXDIR, PATH, ONCONFIG, and INFORMIXSERVER environment variables and then execute oninit. Similarly, you can ask the system administrator to modify the shutdown script so that the database server shuts down normally.

For more information on post-installation tasks, see the pointers in the following table.