Windows Server Discovery Process

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Windows Server Discovery Process

The Informix Server Discovery Process for SNMP is known as onsrvapd. It is installed as a Windows service that runs under the Informix user. The discovery process discovers multiple server instances running on the host. These instances might belong to different versions that are installed on different directories. Whenever a server instance is brought online, the discovery process detects it and spawns an instance of OnSNMP to monitor the database server.

Starting and Stopping onsrvapd

You can start onsrvapd from the services folder in the control panel or from a command prompt. To start and stop onsrvapd from a command prompt, enter the following commands:

To start onsrvapd, enter:
```
net start onsrvapd
```
To stop onsrvapd, enter:
```
net stop onsrvapd
```

The OnSNMP Discovery Process (onsrvapd.exe) is installed as an Windows service and starts and stops automatically. You do not need to issue commands at the command line. In the event you want to issue commands from the command line, see the command-line syntax listed in Issuing the onsrvapd Command.

To make sure that onsrvapd is running correctly

Check the log file to verify that onsrvapd has not generated any errors. For location of the log files, see your release notes.
Verify that onsrvapd is running.

Installing the IBM Informix SNMP Agent

If you install the Microsoft SNMP Extendible master agent after you install the Informix database server or coserver, the Informix installation procedure cannot create INFXSNMP. To correct this problem, run a program called inssnmp to complete the OnSNMP installation.

To run inssnmp

Start a Command Prompt session.
Go to %INFORMIXDIR%\bin.
Enter the following command:
inssnmp

Tip:

If you install a Windows service pack on your computer before you install the Microsoft SNMP Extendible master agent, you might need to reinstall the service pack.