INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server System Administration: Monitoring and Auditing

Course Status:	Released	Courseware Features
Course Language:	English
Course Duration:	4 Hours
Deployment Options:	Online, Interactive CDs, Network, Downloads, Intranet

Audience

Application developers, database and system administrators, and technical support personnel

Prerequisites

The course INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server System Administration: Managing the Instance; the course Relational Principles and the SQL Programming suite; a knowledge of the UNIX operating system is necessary (refer to the UNIX curriculum); an understanding of client/server technologies, though not a strict prerequisite, would be useful

Course Aim

To enable the student to use the monitoring and auditing facilities provided by OnLine

Learning Objectives

Describe OnLine's monitoring utilities. Explain how the onperf utility's tools and components are used. Discuss the secure auditing facility. Explain how to create, modify, and drop audit masks. Set up secure auditing for an OnLine system. Describe the event alarm feature.

Topics Covered

Monitoring OnLine - Monitoring resources - Monitoring user activity - The SMI The onperf utility - An overview of onperf - Using onperf Secure auditing - About secure auditing - Defining masks and starting auditing - Hands-on: Setting up secure auditing Analyzing audits and alarms - Analyzing the audit trail - Hands-on: Loading an audit file - Event alarms