Setting up notification and contact lists

Setting up notification and contact lists

For your DB2 product to contact you or others regarding the health of your databases, you will have to set up notification and contact lists. If you did not do this during the DB2 installation, you can manually set up these lists.

Procedure:

To set up notification and contact lists:

1.Log on as the instance owner or a user with SYSADM authority.

2.If the SMTP server was not specified during the installation process, you can configure it manually using the following command:

db2 update admin cfg using smtp_server host1

where host1 represents the TCP/IP host name for the SMTP server used for e-mail notification. You can also update this information using the Create Database with Automatic Maintenance wizard, or the Troubleshoot Alert Notification wizard in the Health Center.

3.If you want the contact information to be located on a remote DB2 administration server (DAS), you can specify the contact_host parameter using the following command:

db2 update admin cfg using contact_host host2

where host2 represents the TCP/IP host name where the DAS is running. If the contact_host parameter is not specified, the DAS assumes the contact information is local.

4.Turn on the scheduler using the following command:

db2 update admin cfg using sched_enable on

5.For these changes to take effect, you need to restart the DAS use the following commands:

db2admin stop db2admin start

6.From either the Task Center or the Health Center, click the Contacts icon in the Task bar. Select System name, then click Add Contact. Type in contact information and then click OK.

Related reference:

v“db2admin - DB2 administration server command” in Command Reference

Getting started with the Command Editor

You can start the Command Editor in the following ways:

vOn Windows systems, click Start and select Programs —> IBM DB2 —> [DB2 copy name]—> Command Line Tools —> Command Editor.

vSelect Command Editor from the Tools menu of another tool.

vClick the Command Editor icon from the toolbar of another tool.

Use the Command Editor to:

vRun DB2 commands and SQL statements.

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