Database Monitoring with BusyBee Agenda  What is BusyBee ?  Architecture  XML Configuration File  Domain Inspectors  Alert Examples  Interface to SystemManagement Platform  OS-/ Databaseserver-Support  Future Plans  BusyBee Links BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Slide 1

What is BusyBee ?  Free of charge Database Monitoring Solution for IBM Informix Dynamic Server and IBM DB2 UDB  Multi-Process-Architecture where each subprocess inspects an individual Database Domain  Easy customization of individual thresholds and time intervals thru an XML configuration file  Early Warning System with 4 escalation levels (Warning, Minor, Critical and Fatal)  Simple integration with existing System Management Platforms thru a userexit mechanism BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Slide 2

Architecture I  BbWatch is the daemon process which runs in the background  According to the XML configuration file BbWatch forks several independent Domain Inspectors  Each Domain Inspector is fully configurable: Wakeup Interval Threshold Values (Warning, Minor, Critical, Fatal) Include/Exclude Search Patterns External script which should be triggered (userexit)  Signal Handling implemented to re-start (SIGHUP) or shutdown (SIGTERM) these Domain Inspectors BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Slide 3

BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Architecture II (BbWatch Daemon) BbWatch Master Daemon /BusyBee/etc/BbWatchIfxCfg..x ml Inspector Domain Inspector DbmStatusCheck Fork individual Domain Inspectors. Each Inspector observes an individual Database Resource. Inspector Domain Inspector DbspaceFullChec k Inspector Domain Inspector OnlineLogCheck Domain Inspector Other Parse the XML configuration file. IDS Utility (onstat) Observe the IDS Message Logfile FileParsing (online.log) Check Databaserv er Availability SQL-Query (DB sysmaster) Check filling degree of Dbspaces Slide 4

BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Architecture III (Domain Inspector) Inspector Domain Inspector DbspaceFullChec k 1 10m % /bin/alert.ksh /BusyBee/etc/BbWatchIfxCfg..xml SQL-Query (DB sysmaster) Write status information to logfile Check filling degree of Dbspaces /BusyBee/log/BbWatch..l og /bin/alert.sh Trigger external script if anyone of the configured thresholds is exceeded. Arguments delivered to external script: (1) Instance Name (2) Domain Name (3) Severity (Warning, Minor,...) (4) Messagetext Get configuration information from XML config file Slide 5

XML Configuration File I An individual XML Configuration File has to be created for each IBM IDS or DB2 UDB instance:  /BusyBee/etc/BbWatchIfxCfg..xml  /BusyBee/etc/BbWatchUdbCfg..xml Each Domain Inspector has a separate section inside this XML ConfigFile which contains individual settings:  Domain Inspector Enabled/Disabled  Time Interval (can be specified in sec, min, hours, days)  Threshhold Values (Warning, Minor, Critical, Fatal)  External Script to be triggered (Examples included)  Individual settings depending on the Domain Inspector BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Slide 6

XML Configuration File II BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de 1 10m % /bin/alert.ksh 1 10m /bin/sendMail.ksh 3s 5s 10s 20s Slide 7

Domain Inspectors for IBM IDS I For the IBM Informx Dynamic Server the following Domain Inspectors are currently implemented: DbmStatusCheck (Is the Instance available) ? LongTxCheck (Is there a long transaction ongoing ?) ConnectCheck (Check Connection to databaseserver) DbspaceFullCheck (Check filling degree of dbspaces) CheckpointCheck (Check the duration of checkpoints) OnlineLogCheck (Parse the 'online.log' for configured patterns) LogFullCheck (Are the logical logs filled ?) MaxExtentCheck (Check number of extents per table/fragment) MaxPageCheck (Check the number of allocated pages) SessionLockCheck (Check number of locks per db session) BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Slide 8

Domain Inspectors for IBM IDS II VirtualSegmentCheck (Check number of alloc. virt. SHM segm.) DbspaceDownCheck (Is any Dbspace in 'down' state ?) ChunkDownCheck (Is any Chunk in 'down' state ?) SessionMemoryCheck (Check allocated memory per db session) ForegroundWriteCheck (Check number of foreground writes) DeadLockCheck (Check number of deadlocks occured) ReadCacheCheck (Check the current read cache rate) WriteCacheCheck (Check the current write cache rate) SequentialScanCheck (Check for sequential scans on tables) ReadyQueueCheck (Check the utilization of the ready queue) BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Slide 9

Domain Inspectors for IBM DB2 UDB Available in Q3/2003 BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Slide 10

Alert Examples Here is an short excerpt of the BusyBee Logfile: :54:57 iif930 INFO BBWHIFX004 Inspecting Domain [DbmStatusCheck] :55:30 iif930 MINOR BBWHIFX008 Domain [VirtualSegmentCheck], Number of allocated Virtual SHM Segments is [4] :55:30 iif930 WARNING BBWHIFX025 Domain [WriteCacheCheck], Current Write Cache Rate is: [80.60] % :55:31 iif930 MINOR BBWHIFX006 Domain [DbspaceFullCheck], Dbspace [idxdbs] is [79]% full :55:31 iif930 CRITICAL BBWHIFX006 Domain [DbspaceFullCheck], Dbspace [datadbs] is [82] % full BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Slide 11

SystemManagement Interface BusyBee could be easily integrated with existing SystemManagement Platforms like CA Unicenter, IBM Tivoli, HP/OpenView or BigBrother thru the 'userexit' mechanism, for example:  /usr/bin/sendOpenView.ksh This entry in the XML ConfigFile instructs BusyBee to call the script /usr/bin/sendOpenView.ksh as soon as anyone of the configured thresholds has been exceeded. Arguments to sendOpenView.ksh are:  Domain Name (like 'DbspaceFullCheck' or 'CheckpointCheck')  Severity (Warning, Minor, Critical, Fatal)  Instance Name (the name of the Informix or DB2 UDB instance)  Messagetext (The full text of the BusyBee message) BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Slide 12

OS-/Databaseserver-Support BusyBee is available on the all UNIX based platforms where Python could be ported to. For popular platforms like AIX, HP/UX, Linux and Solaris there exists binary distributions of Python. BusyBee supports the following databaseservers on these platforms: IBM Informix IDS 7.x IBM Informix IDS 9.x IBM DB2 UDB 7.x (available in Q3/2003) IBM DB2 UDB 8.x (available in Q3/2003) BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Slide 13

Future Plans For future releases of BusyBee the following enhancements are planned:  Add additional Domain Inspectors for IBM Informix Dynamic Server and IBM DB2 UDB  Support the OpenSource databaseserver MySQL  Provide a data collector module (BbPerf) which collects performance and operational data  Provide a web based interface for analyzing the data collected by BbPerf BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Slide 14

BusyBee Links The following links might be intesting:  (BusyBee MainPage containing Documentation, FAQ, Release-History and Download Information)  (MainPage of the Python Project)  (Precompiled Python Binaries for the Solaris OS)  (Precompiled Python Binaries for the AIX OS)  For additional information feel free to contact me via BusyBee Overview April 28, consulting.de Slide 15