Getting Started with IBM Data Studio for DB2

154 Getting Started with IBM Data Studio for DB2
From the Monitor tab of Task Launcher, if you select any one of the view health
summary, view alerts list, view application connections or view table space storage
usage monitoring tasks, the corresponding page opens in the Data Studio web console
Monitor view.
From the Administration Explorer, right-click a database and explore the monitoring
options.
The same Monitor menu is available from the View menu in the Administration
Explorer.
Figure 4.20 – The embedded Data Studio web console interfaces.
4.10 Exercises
In this section, you will create a variety of error scenarios so that you can get a better
understanding of how this product works, and how you can take advantage of its features.
For the purposes of this exercise, we recommend that you use the GSDB sample database
as your test database. For more information on how to install the GSDB database, see
Chapter 1.
To keep this exercise simple, you will create these error scenarios in a controlled manner,
and you will use lower thresholds to quickly cause situations that will be flagged as alerts.
This section includes scenarios for the following alert types:
• Database Availability: This generates a data server status alert.