Diagnostics: Control Panel (DB2 UDB for UNIX and Windows) 

The Diagnostics: Control Panel screen provides general information on the availability and reliability of all of your systems that have been configured and are not switched off. For information on configuration and status, see Configuration of Systems for Remote Monitoring.

You can access this information by calling the DBA Cockpit and choosing Diagnostics ® Control Panel in the navigation frame of the DBA Cockpit.

The following information is displayed:

Field	Description
Status	Traffic light that indicates the status of the system: ·        Green: No action required. ·        Yellow: We strongly recommend that you take immediate action to avoid serious errors that might lead to a database stop. ·        Red: Immediate action required.
System	Name of the system as defined in the DBA Cockpit configuration
Buffer Quality (%)	Worst buffer pool quality of all buffer pools
TS with Highest Fill Level	Name of the tablespace with the highest fill level
TS Fill Level (%)	Fill level of the tablespace with the highest fill level
Last Backup	Date of the last backup
Log Dir Fill Level (%)	Fill level of the log file directory This information is only displayed for RFC-monitored systems.

 

During the system check, a message log is written into a list in the lower half of the screen. For detailed information, double-click a message log entry.

For detailed information on one of the checked objects, select a cell and access the following information using the context menu:

·        Detailed information for the analysis of the object

·        Maintenance of the object

·        Alert configuration data of the object

·        Alert messages related to the object

If you want to retrieve the latest data on your system, choose  Refresh.

By default, the data on the screen is automatically refreshed. In the Automatic Refresh group box, you can set the time period for the refresh or you can select No if you do not want to refresh your data.