A comprehensive Tool Suite for Managing IBM Informix Servers
Server Studio
Your IBM Informix® data servers environment may be complex, but the tools to manage it don't have to be. Server Studio™ is the premier graphical development and management environment that features a rich collection of modern tools which help both seasoned database professionals and novices alike manage IBM Informix® data servers infrastructure with an unprecedented ease and improved productivity. This multi-platform suite of integrated, state-of-the-art system management tools helps organizations ensure that critical database applications remain up and perform at peak levels, manage change and assure continuing availability of vital business information.
Created by AGS database experts in very close cooperation with IBM, Server Studio™ provides a comprehensive collection of modern, easy-to-use, proven tools for DBAs and developers that emulate natural workflow and improve efficiency of performing common database tasks such as:
- Data Server Administration
- SQL Development and Debugging
- Schema Management
- Configuration Auditing and Change Management
- Performance Tuning
- Data Storage Management and Reorganization
- Database Security Administration
Highly intuitive, interactive functionality of Server Studio™ helps make short work of tasks that otherwise would consume hours of your valuable time.
A cohesive integrated graphical console unites all development, administration and maintenance activities for your entire infrastructure of IBM Informix® data servers at a centralized point of control and helps maximize availability, performance and maintainability of your vital databases, regardless of whether your servers are all in one location, or at remote sites around the world.
Server Studio™, together with Sentinel™, provide wide-ranging functionality to support your organization’s vital IBM Informix® databases — from initial design, development and testing, all the way through to production deployment and successful operational service.
Sentinel
Keeping your IBM Informix® data servers tuned for optimal performance and ensuring that system configurations adhere to approved designs are the key factors in maintaining database availability. Poor performance of mission-critical database applications means lost revenue and business opportunities. A substantial part of managing database infrastructure involves performing regular administration tasks, keeping track of key performance parameter indicators, responding to unexpected system events and keeping changes to the configuration of your databases up to date.
Sentinel™ application server helps database professionals efficiently manage IBM Informix® data servers infrastructure and do it with unprecedented ease. Each Sentinel installation is capable of serving multiple IBM Informix® data servers and its powerful, agent-less multiplatform client-server architecture is easy to deploy as a Microsoft Windows service or UNIX/LINUX background process — there is no need to install anything on the target data server. While there are two distinct editions of Sentinel — each designed to address specific needs — both can co-reside on the same server hosting Sentinel installation.
Sentinel™ — Performance Management Option (“PMO”) edition provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use issue discovery, analysis and response automation solution that enables rapid identification and remediation of database performance problems in your IBM Informix® data servers’ environment. It enables database professionals to quickly and easily:
- Automate wide-ranging 24 x 7 monitoring of data servers' operations in real time
- Execute regularly scheduled data server maintenance and administration tasks
- Enable flexible alerting to provide proactive notification of performance degradation problems
- Manage scenarios for autonomic responses to server anomaly events
Sentinel™ — Change Management Option (“CMO”) edition provides an integrated solution for database administrators and application developers to simplify and automate database configuration change management and ensure system's availability, performance and compliance. It enables database professionals to quickly and easily:
- Capture and version database definitions in baselines
- Compare databases or baselines to track changes
- Reverse engineer object or schema definitions
- Roll-out, roll-back and recover lost or damaged database objects
Sentinel™, together with Server Studio™, provide wide-ranging functionality to support your organization’s vital IBM Informix® databases — from initial design, development and testing, all the way through to production deployment and successful operational service.
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