The IBM® OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) for Informix® is a web application for administering and analyzing the performance of IBM Informix database servers. You can administer multiple database server instances from a single OAT installation on a web server. You can access the web server through any browser to administer all your database servers.
OAT includes these optional plug-ins: the IBM Informix Health Advisor Plug-in for OpenAdmin Tool (OAT), the IBM Informix Replication Plug-in for OpenAdmin Tool (OAT), the IBM Informix Schema Manager Plug-in for OpenAdmin Tool (OAT), the IBM Informix TimeSeries Plug-in for OpenAdmin Tool (OAT), and the IBM Informix JSON Plug-in for OpenAdmin Tool (OAT). You can create more plug-ins for OAT to add the functions that you need.
The minimum version requirements for products that OAT uses are listed in the following table.
| Product | Version |
|---|---|
| Mozilla Firefox web browser (Recommended) | 10 |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser | 8 |
| Apple Safari web browser | 6 |
| Google Chrome web browser | 32 |
| IBM Informix database server | 11.10 |
| PHP | 5.2.4 |
| Adobe Flash Player | 11 |
The IBM OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) for Informix is installed by default on the supported platforms during a typical installation of the IBM Informix Client Software Development Kit (Client SDK) or when you install the IBM Informix software bundle and select Client SDK. This installation program includes OAT, the Health Advisor plug-in, the Replication plug-in, the Schema Manager plug-in, the TimeSeries plug-in, the JSON plug-in, and all necessary software to run OAT, including pre-configured Apache, PHP, and PDO_informix. For more information, see the topics in the Informix information center on Installing IBM OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) for Informix with the Client SDK: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G_12.1.0/com.ibm.cpi.doc/ids_cpi_027.htm.
Alternatively, you can download the OpenAdmin Tool Community Edition, which requires manual installation and does not include Apache, PHP, or PDO_informix. This readme file provides information for downloading and installing the OpenAdmin Tool Community Edition.
The community edition of the IBM OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) for Informix includes all the features and functionality of the IBM OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) for Informix that you install with the IBM Informix Client Software Development Kit (Client SDK) or with the IBM Informix software bundle when you select Client SDK.
Support for the community edition of OAT is available through discussion forums hosted by the International Informix User Group (IIUG) and the IBM developerWorks®Informix technical forums. For more information, see OpenAdmin Tool support forums.
The OpenAdmin Tool Community Edition is installed manually. The Health Advisor plug-in, the Replication plug-in, the Schema Manager plug-in, the TimeSeries plug-in, the JSON plug-in can be installed with the OAT Community Edition.
To install OAT manually, you must have working knowledge of web servers and PHP. If you do not have this knowledge, you might need assistance from a web server administrator in your organization.
OAT is platform independent. You can manually install and run OAT on any operating system for which you can set up and run the prerequisites listed in this section.
OAT requires that the following products be installed. The versions in parentheses indicate the versions with which OAT has been tested.
You can download the OpenAdmin Tool Community Edition from the IBM Informix Free Product Download page: https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?lang=en_US&source=swg-informixfpd.
These files are available to download.
| Download | Description |
|---|---|
| oatidsV3.17.tar | OpenAdmin Tool Community Edition packaged as a tar file. The package includes OAT, the Health Advisor plug-in, the Replication plug-in, the Schema Manager plug-in, the TimeSeries plug-in, and the JSON plug-in. It does not include Apache, PHP, PDO_informix, or IBM Informix Connect. |
| oatidsV3.17.zip | OpenAdmin Tool Community Edition packaged as a compressed file. The package includes OAT, the Health Advisor plug-in, the Replication plug-in, the Schema Manager plug-in, the TimeSeries plug-in, and the JSON plug-in. It does not include Apache, PHP, PDO_informix, or IBM Informix Connect. |
| README.html | Instructions on how to install the OpenAdmin Tool Community Edition. (This document.) |
| RELEASENOTES.html | Fixed defects for the release. Link to new features. |
For further help, consult the web server product documentation for installation instructions, or contact the product customer service representatives for assistance.
If you are using the XAMPP package:
If you are not sure about the location of the correct php.ini configuration file, run the phpinfo() command within a PHP script on your web server to determine the location of the correct php.ini file.
extension=php_pdo_informix.dll
extension=php_pdo_sqlite.dll Following is the syntax for changing the ownership and permissions:
chown user:group OATINSTALL; chmod +w OATINSTALL;Where OATINSTALL is the root directory for OAT, which is the same directory where you extracted the OAT package.
If you started the web server before you modified the php.ini file or before you set the INFORMIXDIR environment variable in the environment, restart the web server for the changes to take effect.
Where:
For example: http://localhost/oat/install
For example: http://localhost:8080/OAT
If you are using an Informix Connect or Client SDK version earlier than V3.0, for each new connection that you add, ensure that there is a corresponding SQLHOSTS entry for that connection on the web server.
To connect to a server, after a connection is created, click Login. Click Get Servers to retrieve the list of connections that you created, and then select the server.
To uninstall OpenAdmin Tool Community Edition manually, delete the OATINSTALL directory.
To upgrade to OpenAdmin Tool Community Edition v3.17 from a previous version, uninstall the old version and install the new version in the same directory. OAT v2.20 and later preserves the connection database information.
Set the Informix Connect or Client SDK variables INFORMIXCONRETRY and INFORMIXCONTIME to avoid page timeout errors for invalid connection information. The recommended settings are:
For more detailed instructions on how to install OAT by using the XAMPP package, refer to the following articles:
If you are using the high availability clusters features from OAT to start and stop secondary servers or to add SD secondary servers, you must configure the following daemons on the Informix server:
The idsd daemon requires Informix 11.50 or later. Also, the idsd daemon is not currently available on Mac OS X or Windows. Without the idsd daemon, the high availability cluster management interface is available in OAT, but the feature set is limited.
You can add plug-ins that are created by IBM or by other organizations to OAT. Plug-ins that are created by IBM are included in the automated and manual installations for OAT. For instructions on installing a plug-in from another organization, see Installing a plug-in for OAT in the OAT HELP or in the Informix information center at http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G_12.1.0/com.ibm.oat.doc/ids_oat_000.htm .
To ask questions, exchange ideas, and share solutions with your peers in the Informix community, visit the following forums:
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