Ingres Operations & System Administration
installing, configuring and running Ingres

 

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Synopsis

A 2-day class in Ingres operations and system administration. Includes a review of the architecture of Ingres, installation issues, disk planning, and management of the Ingres environment  This course includes coverage of all versions up to Ingres 2006. Customers in the US/Canada should contact KB Computer Associates to schedule this course

Duration and Cost

2 day, £700 / $1,370USD / €1,040, per seat, ex VAT Price excludes VAT and other applicable local taxes

Location

London, Manchester, Dublin, and on-site world-wide  

Format

Lecture and labs

Course Code

ISA  

Prerequisites

Some familiarity with database concepts and an operating system such as Linux, Unix, W2K/W2K3, or OpenVMS.  Some previous experience in the role of a DBA would be beneficial, but not essential. 

This course should typically be taken before the 3-day Ingres Database Administration course.

 

Outline
Day 1

Chapter 1 Ingres Architecture
  server processes / client-server architecture / directory structure / name server / archiver / recovery server / star / starting & stopping an Ingres installation / iinamu / starting processes individually /  the locking system / lock resources / logging system / log records & log buffers / group commit / transaction log file / fast commit / consistency points / journaling  
Chapter 2 Installing Ingres
  an Ingres installation / installation identifiers / database installations / client installations / cluster installations / STAR installations / installation planning / ANSI/ISO SQL92 compliance / disk usage / Ingres areas / traffic patterns / reliability / disk space / recommended disk configurations / installing on Unix, W2K/W2K3 and OpenVMS / installing upgrades and patches / reversing patches
Chapter 3 Ingres System Maintenance
  starting and stopping Ingres processes / system backups / checking processes / IVM / file sizes / error logs / archiver exit script / error messages explained / directory structure / creating new areas and locations / extending a database / auxiliary work locations / relocating databases / the master database / re-initializing the transaction log
 

Day 2

Chapter 4 Configuration
  configuration repository / configuration parameters / configuration editors / configuration rules / tuneable parameters listing: DBMS server - DMF cache - locking - logging
Chapter 5 Monitoring Ingres
  iinamu / iinamu commands / manually registering a server / iimonitor / iimonitor commands / logstat / lockstat / ipm / rpcstat / VDBA / using VDBA
Chapter 6 Ingres Management Architecture (IMA)
  IMA / MIB objects /imadb database / IMA tables / monitoring cache utilization / diagnosing blocked lock requests / monitoring trends / using IMA to write utilities
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