4IBM Informix OnLine Database Server Administrator’s Guide
Organization of This Manual
Organization of This ManualThis manual includes the following chapters:
■Chapter 1, “Installation and Initial Configuration,” provides a step-
by-step explanation of OnLine database server installation and
setup. The chapter includes a worksheet to assist you in planning
your system and in documenting your configuration.
■Chapter 2, “System Architecture,” providesoptional reference
material about OnLine operation that is intended to deepen your
understanding of OnLine 5.x.
■Chapter3, “Operating OnLine,” explains the routine tasks of OnLine
administration: startup and shutdown, logical log management,
archive management, monitoring OnLine activity, and managing
disk space.
■Chapter 4, “Data Consistency, Recovery, and Migration,” provides
background information and instructions for using the high-avail-
ability features of OnLine.
■Chapter5, “How to Improve Performance,” describes strategies you
can use to obtain maximum performance within your processing
environment.
■Chapter 6, “DB-Monitor Screens,” explains how to use the
DB-Monitor menu facility provided with OnLine.
■Chapter 7, “Utilities,” describes the function and syntax of each of
the 14 OnLine utilities.
■Chapter8, “OnLine Message Log,” provides reference material that
documents the internal messages that OnLine generates during
processing.
■Chapter9, “Product Environment,” describes three possible OnLine
environments. First, this chapter describes the OnLine features that
are available to you within a single-system environment. Second,
this chapter describes how to configure and administer OnLine
databaseservers if you are running more than one OnLine database
server on a single host machine. Finally, this chapter describes
OnLine administration issues that arise when you use the
IBMInformix STAR product to run OnLine in a client/server
environment.