This parameter specifies the type of administration notification
messages that are written to the administration notification log.
- Configuration type
- Database manager
- Applies to
-
- Database server with local and remote clients
- Client
- Database server with local clients
- Partitioned database server with local and remote clients
- Parameter type
- Configurable Online
- Propagation class
- Immediate
- Default [range]
- 3 [ 0 - 4 ]
On Linux and UNIX operating systems, the administration notification
log is a text file called instance.nfy.
On Windows, all administration
notification messages are written to the Event Log. The errors can
be written by DB2®, the Health
Monitor, the Capture and Apply programs, and user applications.
Valid
values for this parameter are:
- 0 - No administration notification messages captured.
(This setting is not recommended.)
- 1 - Fatal or unrecoverable errors. Only fatal
and unrecoverable errors are logged. To recover from some of these
conditions, you might need assistance from DB2 service.
- 2 -
Immediate action required. Conditions are logged that require immediate
attention from the system administrator or the database administrator.
If the condition is not resolved, it could lead to a fatal error.
Notification of very significant, non-error activities (for example,
recovery) might also be logged at this level. This level will capture
Health Monitor alarms. Informational messages will be shown at this
level.
- 3 - Important information, no immediate action
required. Conditions are logged that are non-threatening and do not
require immediate action but might indicate a non-optimal system.
This level will capture Health Monitor alarms, Health Monitor warnings,
and Health Monitor attentions.
- 4 -
Informational messages.
Usage Notes- The administration notification log includes messages having values
up to and including the value of notifylevel.
For example, setting notifylevel to 3 will
cause the administration notification log to include messages applicable
to levels 1, 2, and 3.
- For a user application to be able to write to the notification
file or Windows Event Log,
it must call the db2AdminMsgWrite API.
- You might want to increase the value of this parameter to gather
additional problem determination data to help resolve a problem. Note
that you must set notifylevel to a value of 2 or
higher for the Health Monitor to send any notifications to the contacts
defined in its configuration.
- In
specific circumstances, to display high importance messages, DB2 will override the notifylevel setting
DB2 Version 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows