IBM DB2 DB Servers

Introduction:

This section is common to all the editions of IT360, as per the below constraints;

Supported Versions:

IT360 supports monitoring of IBM DB2 8.x, 9 versions.

Monitored Parameters:

Availability tab, gives the Availability history for the past 24 hours or 30 days. Performance tab gives the Health Status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days. List view enables you to perform Bulk admin configurations. Click on the individual monitors listed, to view the following information:

Monitor Information:

Parameters

Description

Name

Specifies the name of IBM DB2 server monitor.

Health

Specifies the health (Clear, Warning, Critical) of the IBM DB2 server.

Type

Specifies the type, you are monitoring.

Version

Specifies the version of the database server.

Port

Specifies the port number, at which the database server is running.

Instance Name

The name of the instance, in which the database is present.

Server Status The current status of the database server, itself.
Started Time The date and time, by which the database manager was started, using the db2start comma.

Host Name

Specifies the host, at which the database server is running.

Host OS

Specifies the OS of the host, where the database server is running.

Last Alarm

Specifies the last alarm that was generated for the database server.

Last Polled at

Specifies the time, at which the last poll was performed.

Next Poll at

Specifies the time, at which the next poll is scheduled.

Availability

Shows the current status of the server - Available or Not available.

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Connection Statistics:

Parameters

Description

Connection Time

Time taken to get connected to the IBM DB2 database server.

Total Connections The total number of local and remote connections that are currently present in the database manager.
Local Connections The number of connections, initiated from remote clients to the current instance of the database manager.
Remote Connections The number of local applications that are currently connected to the database, within the database manager.

Agents Statistics:

Parameters

Description

Active Agents

The number of agents in the agent pool that are currently active and assigned to an application.

Idle Agents

The number of agents in the agent pool that are currently unassigned to any application.

Number of Agents

The number of agents, registered in the current database manager instance.

Agents Waiting The number of agents, waiting for a token, so that they can execute a transaction in the database manager.

Database Information:

Parameters

Description

Database Name

The real name of the database, for which information is collected.

Health

Specifies the health (Clear, Warning, Critical) of the database.

Database Alias

The alias of the database provided, when calling the snapshot function.

Database Path

The full path of the location, where the database is stored on the monitored system.

Database Status The current status of the database.
Connected Time The date and time, when the activate database was issued.
Deadlock Rate The total number of deadlocks that have occurred within the given polling interval.
Percentage of Log Utilization The total amount of active log space used, in bytes, in the database.
Percentage of Sorts Overflowed
The percentage of sorts that have over flowed.

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Transaction Statistics:

Parameters

Description

Successful Queries

The total number of successful SQL statements, executed at the database, in the given polling interval.

Failed Queries

The number of SQL statements that were attempted, but failed at the database, within the given polling interval.

Units of Work

This represents the total number of sql commits, internal commits, sql roll backs, and internal roll backs, done by the database manager, within the given polling interval.

Cache Performance:

Parameters

Description

Package Cache Hit Ratio

This hit ratio is a percentage, indicating how well the package cache is helping to avoid reloading packages and sections for static SQL, from the system catalogs, as well as helping to avoid recompiling dynamic SQL statements.

Catalog Cache Hit Ratio

This hit ratio is a percentage, indicating how well the catalog cache is helping to avoid actual accesses to the catalog, on disk.

Buffer Statistics:

Parameters

Description

Buffer Pool Hit Ratio

The buffer pool hit ratio indicates the percentage of time that the database manager loaded the required page from buffer pool, in order to service a page request.

Index Page Hit Ratio

The Index Page hit ratio indicates the percentage of time that the database manager accessed the index pages, present in the buffer pools.

Data Page Hit Ratio

The Data Page hit ratio indicates the percentage of time that the database manager accessed the data pages, present in the buffer pools.

Direct Reads

The number of read operations that do not use the buffer pool.

Direct Writes

The number of write operations that do not use the buffer pool.

TableSpace Status:

Parameters

Description

Name

Refers to the name of the Table space.

Allocated Bytes calculated from (tablespace_total_pages)*(tablespace_page_size) and converted to MB

Free Bytes

calculated from (tablespace_free_pages)*(tablespace_page_size) and converted to MB

% of Free Bytes

calculated from (tablespace_free_pages) /(tablespace_total_pages)*100

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See Also:

Creating New Monitor - IBM DB2 Database Server



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