The Admin-Scout for Informix

A separate server for monitoring, administration and tuning of Informix databases

Support for Informix Administrators

You are an administrator and responsible for the availability of your company’s database? 
Your support means to be on standby around the clock with short reaction times and high pressure in the case of a problem?

Look ahead and simplify the administration of your IBM Informix data base systems. Reduce the effort with automatized monitoring and alarming.
Get direct an overview of the important performance parameters of your system. Use the Admin-Scout Dashboard for a quick overview and the drill-down function for the details.

Optimize the performance and response times of your applications. Analyse the performance over daily or weekly periods. Switch on the SQL trace to find time-intensive statements.

Focus on the essentials and use the Admin-Scout for automated monitoring. The alarm system of the Admin-Scout is finely configurable and reports alarms priority-controlled. Stay undisturbed by trivialities and recognize immediately if it really burns.

Our best practice toolbox relieves administrators in their daily work:

• Easiest way to start with Informix administration
• access to all Informix instances in the corporate network
• configuration and administration via a central tool
• automation, monitoring, prioritized alarming
• dashboards and meaningful reporting
• bottleneck analysis, evaluation of performance data with detailed diagrams
• automation of tasks (task scheduling)
• combined database and system monitoring
• Best practice plug-ins from CURSOR Informix Support
• Informix service and support up to 24x7 additionally on top

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Current information about the Admin-Scout development can be found in our Newsblog!

Admin-Scout - additional Services for Informix

Scout-Starter and Scout-Trainer are service packages for the quick start and optimum use of the Admin-Scout in your system environment.

With Scout-Admin and Scout-Ultimate, our support staff will take on specific tasks in your Informix administration. About the Admin Scout, our employees are right at the pulse of your database systems. We offer a coordinated monitoring and the execution of administrative tasks, up to the 24x7 support readiness.

Admin-Scout - Download Updates & Images

Installation of Updates

• Go to the menu: "Backup / Restore und Update"
• choose "Admin-Scout-Update" and choose your update file from here. After this click on "Upload Update"
• Is the upload finished, you see your file and the size of the file.
• Click on "Update" and wait on the success-message.

After this update you must update the Open-Admin plugin. Go to the Open-Admin-Tool under Admin to the "Plugin-Manager" menu entry. You can see the "CURSOR-Scout-Plugin" with a Update button after. Click on 'Update' and wait for finish.

After this you must check every configured instanz for new versions of the task or sensor's. Go for every instanz to the menu entry "Install Sensors" under "Scout Settings" and check the updates.

ATTENTION: for the update to version 3.0.0 the package sqlite3 must be installed.

ATTENTION: for the update to version 3.1.0 the package shellinabox must be installed (apt-get install shellinabox).

Admin-Scout for Informix - start your demo session

Dear Visitor,

the Admin-Scout demo session runs within a VM on an Informix Innovator-C database.

You can test all features of the Admin-Scout (Informix Control Center).

However, you have no access to the items Configuration, Time Settings and Backup/Restore. Here we offer slide shows for an overview.

The following tools are available:

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