4IBM Informix OnLine Database Server Administrator’s Guide

Organization of This Manual

Organization of This Manual
This 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.