Published: 19 Nov 2012
Your organization’s most critical applications and business services rely on IBM DB2 databases. CA Nimsoft Monitor for DB2 helps ensure databases, and the associated infrastructure, deliver the performance required.
Key Features
Extensive DB2 Monitoring Coverage that Yields Essential Insights
- Comprehensive DB2 coverage.
CA Nimsoft Monitor gives you a comprehensive view of your entire DB2 infrastructure, whether you’re looking to monitor a single database instance on a single server, or multiple instances on multiple server clusters. CA Nimsoft Monitor allows you to manage both local and remote database servers, so your DB2 instances operate at peak efficiency, regardless of their location.
- Fast insights.
With its centralized view of all DB2 instances and its sophisticated graphical user interface, CA Nimsoft Monitor enables you to quickly get the insights you need to optimize the performance and availability of your entire DB2 infrastructure. CA Nimsoft Monitor offers granular capabilities for setting thresholds, polling schedules, and alarms—so you can ensure your team is notified of potential issues when needed.
- Efficient integration and administration.
CA Nimsoft Monitor makes setup and configuration fast and efficient. Using a standard interface, you can quickly define which database servers and instances are to be monitored, and how they’re to be monitored. Further, CA Nimsoft Monitor features templates that administrators can use to simplify configuration and automate ongoing administration tasks, significantly streamlining monitoring administration of large numbers of DB2 servers.
Benefits
The Benefits of Robust DB2 Monitoring
- Improved performance and uptime.
CA Nimsoft Monitor offers flexible, sophisticated alerting capabilities that accelerate the identification of performance issues—enabling response before end user productivity is affected. Plus, with our PMDB, you can also track key historical performance metrics to intelligently assess performance trends and more effectively guard against potential issues.
- Enhanced resource optimization.
By delivering a centralized, comprehensive view of performance, CA Nimsoft Monitor delivers invaluable insights that provide opportunities for better utilizing existing resources.
- Reduced monitoring administration cost and effort.
CA Nimsoft Monitor offers the flexibility, automation, and intuitive interface that significantly reduces the time and effort required to monitor DB2 database environments.
Technical Details
Extensive DB2 Monitoring Coverage
With CA Nimsoft Monitor for DB2, organizations can leverage the following monitoring metrics:
Instances
- Number of local connections
- Number of remote connections
- Number of gateway connections
- Created agents ratio
- Agents registered
- Agents waiting
Database
- Locking information (locks held, lock waits, deadlocks, etc.)
- Sort information (number of sorts, sort time, sort overflow, etc.)
- Buffer pool and I/O information (number of reads, writes, times, etc.)
- SQL statement counts (commits, rollbacks, selects, etc.)
- Row counts
- Internal counts
- Application connection counts
- Login information
Platform Features
| Agent-optional Coverage |
Alarm Console |
| MM Easily monitor local or remote environments |
See, assign, and close alarms. Fast. |
| Alarm Database |
APIs and SDKs |
| Accelerate problem resolution. |
Tailor the solution to meet your unique business requirements. |
| Automatic Discovery & Deployment |
CA Nimsoft Portal |
| Keep informed of changes to your infrastructure. |
Unified view of IT performance |
| Executive Dashboards |
Flexible Pricing & Licensing |
| Powerful out-of-box executive views |
Works with your budget, and your business. |
| Gateways and 3rd Party Integration |
IT Service Level Management |
| Integrate all of your IT management tools with ease. |
Set, meet, and exceed your SLAs. |
| ITIL® Compatible |
Message Bus |
| Best-practices. Built-in. |
Rest assured that your solution is future ready. |
| Multi-tenant |
CA Nimsoft for iPhone |
| Scale your services—efficiently and economically. |
A unified view, now in your pocket. |
| On-Premise or SaaS |
Performance Management Database (PMDB) |
| Flexibility to suit your business. |
Spot trends before they become problems. |
| Security |
Usage-based Metering & Billing |
| Keep private data private. |
Provide pay-as-you-grow scalability for your customers. |
| Web Archive |
| Access the world’s largest collection of IT monitoring probes. |
