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Server Studio™ and Sentinel™
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Server Studio™ and Sentinel™ are complementary software 
products which together provide a powerful solutions that 
help both seasoned database professionals and novices alike 
manage IBM Informix® DBMS servers environment complexities 
with ease and significantly improved productivity. This 
multi-platform suite of integrated, highly intuitive DBMS
management tools provides wide-ranging functionality 
that enables database professionals to:

- Improve efficiency of database development and testing. 
- Manage multiple databases from a single console. 
- Automate daily database maintenance tasks. 
- Preserve database investment by automating database 
  configuration auditing and change management. 
- Proactively diagnose performance and availability problems. 
- Enable real-time autonomic responses to server events. 
- Obtain maximum leverage from existing storage investments. 
- Resolve problems with comprehensive SQL tuning. 
- Effectively manage database security.

Server Studio™ provides a comprehensive collection of 
modern, easy-to-use, proven tools for DBAs and developers 
that emulate the natural workflow and improve efficiency 
of performing common database tasks such as: SQL development 
and debugging, schema management, configuration auditing 
and change management, performance tuning, data storage 
management and reorganization, security administration and 
much more — all from an integrated graphical console that 
unites all development, administration and maintenance 
activities for your entire IBM Informix® DBMS servers 
infrastructure at a centralized point of control.

Sentinel™ automates proactive 24 X 365 operational monitoring 
of IBM Informix® DBMS servers, provides an extensive array 
of sophisticated diagnostics tools to optimize critical 
performance parameters, executes regular database maintenance 
tasks, enables setting of highly flexible multi-level alerts 
to flag availability and performance degradation problems and 
manages autonomic responses to server events in real time. 
Continuous time-series measurement data of the server’s 
performance, system alert events and task execution status 
flags obtained by Sentinel™ can be recorded in the built-in 
SQL-compliant repository for subsequent analysis.

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Installation Requirements
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1) Java JRE 1.8
2) 350 MB RAM
3) 45 MB hard drive space

Supported IBM Informix Servers
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1) IDS 15.0
2) IDS 14.10
3) IDS 12.10
4) IDS 11.x
5  IDS 10.x
6) IDS 9.x
7) IDS 7.x
8) XPS 8.3
9) Online 5.1

Operating System
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— Windows 2008/2012/2016/2019/2022/ 7/ 8/ 10/ 11
— Solaris 6/7/8, Linux, HP Unix, IBM AIX, MAC OS

For additional information see readme.html located in <AGS> root directory