Monitoring jobs

Introduction to monitoring jobs
You must configure an IBM InfoSphere Information Server engine system before you can monitor it using the IBM InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage Operations Console.

Getting started with the Operations Console
Before you use the IBM InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage Operations Console to monitor your InfoSphere Information Server systems, you must complete these tasks.

Creating and configuring the operations database
You must create and configure the operations database before you can use the IBM InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage Operations Console to monitor IBM InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage jobs.

Managing the data collection processes
In normal circumstances, you use the AppWatcher process to ensure that the data collection processes are always running.

Monitoring jobs and job runs by using the Operations Console
Use the IBM InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage Operations Console to monitor your jobs, job activity, system resources, and workload management queues on your IBM InfoSphere Information Server engines.

Extracting monitoring data from the operations database
Run SQL queries against the operations database to extract monitoring data.

Maintenance of the operations database
Information is added by the data collection processes to the operations database, but there is no automatic method for deleting or archiving historical data. You must set up a method to delete or archive the historical data to manage the size of the operations database.