Category Archives: Information Management

RESTORE.EXE Updated – 64-bit DB2 Support

As the title says, restore.exe (automated redirected restore with TSM support) has been tested against DB2 UDB V8.2 on Windows 2003 Server 64-bit (64-bit instance) and works. Next port will be to Linux 32-bit. Porting to 64-bit will be problematic … Continue reading

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Snapshot Monitoring Tool Progress

Updates have been applied to snapper (data collector), snapsave (recorder) and snapmon (web based front end) to allow snapsave and snapmon to support multiple collectors.   New test data was generated, and it is now apparent that some summarisation of … Continue reading

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Progress on the snapshot monitoring tool

The front end has been modified to include updates to the report presentation: Colour coding of the grid report to show which columns are chartable. Charting support using Dojo.  The charts are presented in a “dialog box” (another Dojo widget). … Continue reading

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Snapshot Monitoring Tool – Latest

The snapshot monitoring tool now has a data recording component for DBM snapshots that records the event and all of the details into a DB2 UDB database.   Work has started on a web-based front end (Apache / PHP / … Continue reading

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Snapshot Monitoring Tool – Latest

The data capture aspects (“snapper”) of the snapshot monitoring tool are now complete. Thread scheduling has been verified, along with the timer thread operation and the communications thread.   A small command line utility has also been written to tell snapper to shutdown. … Continue reading

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