The DB2 Monitoring Probe monitors the internal DB2 performance using more than 120 parameters. Alarms are generated when critical thresholds are crossed, and all the data that is collected is forwarded to the NimBUS service level manager for historical reporting and trending purposes.

Example metrics that are collected include:

Instances

number of local connections
number of remote connections
number of gateway connections
created agents ratio
agents registered
agents waiting

Database

locking information (locks held, lock waits, deadlocks, etc.)
sort information (number of sorts, sort time, sort overflow, etc.)
buffer pool and I/O information (number of reads, writes, times, etc.)
SQL statement counts (commits, rollbacks, selects, etc.)
row counts
internal counts
application connection counts
login information

Editing the DB2 probe setup values

Editing the DB2 probe status parameters

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