The Health Monitor runs by default on the instance you are setting up. The Health Monitor watches all DB2 related data within the instance. The Health Monitor automatically tracks performance in the database environment. When a health indicator is breached, at either alarm or warning level, an alert can be sent to a predefined contact. You can use the Health Center or the Command Line Processor (CLP) to view health monitor data.
The default contact information is stored in the Health Monitor configuration. After setting up the instance, you can change this setting using the Health Center or the CLP. The health monitor notification function requires a default contact for each instance to send alerts to.
Specify the instance contact information in the Administration contact for this instance group box.
To define new contact information, select New contact and type the name and email address in the appropriate fields.
The Name identifies the contact that will receive Health Center notification.
The Email address field must be a valid email address and will be used to send alert information to the contact. Select Address is for a pager if you want the text emailed to this address to be formatted for a pager.
To use a previously defined contact, select Existing contact and select a contact name from the drop-down list. All contacts defined in your local or global contact list are available.
Select Defer this task until after installation is complete if you do not want to define contact information now. You can change or define contact information later using the Health Center or the CLP. For information about adding a contact name after DB2 is installed, refer to the ADD CONTACT command, in the DB2 Command Reference.
If you are using a global contact list and are defining a new contact, specify the information required in the Remote DB2 server login group box.
Type the User name to use to connect to the host where the global contact list is stored.
Type the Password to use to connect to the host where the global contact list is stored.
For more information on health monitoring and the Health Center, see the DB2 Administration Guide.