8-4 IBM Informix OnLine Database Server Administrator’s Guide
OnLine Message Log
Informixrecommends that you monitor the message log once or twice a day
to ensure that processing is proceeding normally. To that end, Informix has
documented the messages with the intent of providing you with as much
informationabout OnLine processingas possible. Of the approximately 150
messages included here, six might require you to contact Informix technical
support staff. These six messages are rarely, if ever, seen at customer
locations.
If OnLine experiences a failure, the message log serves as a paper trail for
retracing the events that later developed into an unanticipated problem.
Oftenthe exact nature of the problem and the suggested corrective action are
provided in the message log.
If you wish, you can read the OnLine message log for a minute-by-minute
account of OnLine processing. It is possible that you could catch events
beforea problem develops. However, Informix does not expect or relyon you
to do this.
The OnLine message log messages are arranged here in alphabetical order.
The following guidelines were used to sort the messages:
■The timestamp that precedes each message is ignored.
■Letter case is ignored in alphabetization.
■Spaces are ignored.
■The word “the” is ignored if it is the first word in the message.
■Messages that begin with variables (such as a device pathname, a
dbspacename, or a numeric value) are alphabetized according to the
first standard word in the message text.
■Messages that begin with numbers or punctuation symbols appear
toward the end of the list.