Getting Started with IBM Data Studio for DB2

Chapter 4 – Monitoring the health of your databases 141
Add the information for the database you want to monitor, as shown in Figure 4.3, then
click Test Connection to validate that you entered your credentials correctly. Then click OK
to add the database to the list of monitored databases.
Figure 4.3 – Specifying database connection information
Note:
As you can imagine, for an environment with a large number of databases, it is tedious
to add each connection manually. When you click the Import button, you can also import
a list of databases from comma-separated files. You can use the
DatabaseConnectionsImportCSV.txt file in the samples folder in the installation
directory as an example of importing from a file.
When you add the database, health monitoring is automatically enabled, and you are ready
to monitor your databases! To see the results, go to Open -> Health -> Health Summary.
Because the default monitoring interval is 10 minutes, it may take that length of time to see
results on the Health Summary, which is described in the next section.
4.4 Overview of the Health Summary page
The web console monitors the health of the databases by periodically querying the
database and displaying the health status, including alert conditions, on the Health
Summary page.