Solutions

AGS' proven state-of-the-art solutions for IBM Informix® data servers help organizations ensure that mission-critical database applications remain up and perform at peak levels, manage complexity and assure continuing availability of vital business information.

Server Studio™ and Sentinel™ are complementary software products which together provide a powerful solutions infrastructure that helps both seasoned database professionals and novices alike manage IBM Informix® data servers environment complexities with ease and significantly improved productivity. This multi-platform suite of integrated, highly intuitive system management tools provides wide-ranging functionality that enables database professionals to:

• Improve efficiency of database development and testing
• Manage multiple databases from a single console
• Automate daily database maintenance tasks
• Preserve database investment by automating database configuration auditing and change management
• Proactively diagnose performance and availability problems
• Enable real-time autonomic responses to server events
• Obtain maximum leverage from existing storage investments
• Resolve problems with comprehensive SQL tuning
• Effectively manage database security

Server Studio™ provides a comprehensive collection of modern, easy-to-use, proven tools for DBAs and developers that emulate the natural workflow and improve efficiency of performing common database tasks such as: SQL development and debugging, schema management, configuration auditing and change management, performance tuning, data storage management and reorganization, security administration and much more — all from an integrated graphical console that unites all development, administration and maintenance activities for your entire IBM Informix® DBMS servers infrastructure at a centralized point of control.

Sentinel™ automates proactive 24 × 7 operational monitoring of IBM Informix® data servers, provides an extensive array of sophisticated diagnostics tools to optimize critical performance parameters, executes regular database maintenance tasks, enables setting of highly flexible multi-level alerts to flag availability and performance degradation problems and manages autonomic responses to server events in real time. Continuous time-series measurement data of the server’s performance, system alert events and task execution status flags obtained by Sentinel™ can be recorded in the built-in SQL-compliant repository for subsequent analysis.

AGS products provide comprehensive support for your organization's critical IBM Informix® databases — from initial design and development all the way through to production deployment and successful operational service.