Monitor options for the DB2 agent


Monitor options for the DB2 agent
Prev	DB2 agent functions	Next

The DB2 agent provides two levels of monitoring: basic and detail. By default, the agent does a basic monitoring.

Table: Monitoring options describes the monitoring options.

Table: Monitoring options

Option	Description
0 (Default)	Basic monitoring (Process check) The agent scans the process table for the db2sysc process to verify that DB2 is running.
1	Detail monitoring Detail monitoring provides a higher level of confidence in the availability of the instance or partition and its database. It sends additional queries to the database, to verify whether the database is available. For information about the IndepthMonitor attribute, you can refer to the following section: See Attribute definition for the DB2 agent.

Option

Description

(Default)

Basic monitoring (Process check)

The agent scans the process table for the db2sysc process to verify that DB2 is running.

Detail monitoring

Detail monitoring provides a higher level of confidence in the availability of the instance or partition and its database. It sends additional queries to the database, to verify whether the database is available.

For information about the IndepthMonitor attribute, you can refer to the following section:

See Attribute definition for the DB2 agent.

Note:

ApplicationHA wizards configure DB2 for Basic monitoring, with Intelligent Monitoring Framework enabled. To enable detailed monitoring, use CLI/Veritas Operation Manager (VOM).