Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions
• What's Changed

1 IBM DB2 Database Plug-in Overview and Prerequisites

• 1.1 IBM DB2 Database Plug-in Overview and Feature Summary
• 1.2 What's New in This Release
  • 1.2.1 Currency Support Updates
  • 1.2.2 Updated User Interface
  • 1.2.3 IBM DB2 Out-of-the-Box Monitoring Templates
  • 1.2.4 IBM DB2 Metric Thresholds
  • 1.2.5 Business Intelligence Publisher Reports
• 1.3 Platforms Supported
• 1.4 Supported Versions
• 1.5 Prerequisites
• 1.6 Setting Up the JDBC Driver
• 1.7 Deploying the Plug-in
• 1.8 Upgrading the Plug-in
• 1.9 Undeploying the Plug-in

2 Configuration for the IBM DB2 Database Plug-in

• 2.1 Configure the Management Agent to Deploy the Plug-In
  • 2.1.1 Assigning Advanced Privileges to User
  • 2.1.2 Setting and Validating Preferred Credentials
• 2.2 Using a Suitable Operating System User and Assigning Authorities and Privileges
• 2.3 Configuring IBM DB2 for Health Indicator Metrics and Database Monitoring Metrics
  • 2.3.1 Configurations Required for Health Indicator Metrics
  • 2.3.2 Configurations Required for Avoiding Metric Collection Errors for Database Monitoring Metrics
  • 2.3.3 Configurations Required for Statement Monitoring
  • 2.3.4 Configurations Required for Lock and Lock Waits Monitoring
  • 2.3.5 Configurations Required for Database Collection Health Indicator Metric

3 Discovery of the IBM DB2 Database Target

• 3.1 Adding Instances for Monitoring
• 3.2 Verifying and Validating the Plug-in

4 Creating and Editing Jobs

5 IBM DB2 Database Plug-in Reports and Metrics

• 5.1 Generating a New Report From Out-of-the-Box Reports
• 5.2 Deploying Reports After BI Publisher is Configured
• 5.3 Using the IBM DB2 Plug-in Monitoring Templates

6 Inventory and Usage Details

• 6.1 Inventory and Usage Details Page Feature Summary
• 6.2 Accessing the Inventory and Usage Details Page
• 6.3 Additional Information

Index