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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 servers 
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