Administering Satellites Guide and Reference

Appendix C. Administering DB2 Satellite Edition from the Control Center

DB2 Satellite Edition does not include a DB2 Administration Server (DAS). Because of this, and for other reasons, if you use the Control Center to administer a DB2 Satellite Edition system, not all of the Control Center functionality is available. The functions that follow cannot be used. All other functions of the Control Center can be used on DB2 Satellite Edition for administration, and for problem determination and correction.

Notes:

1. You can only use the Control Center to administer a satellite system if you select the inbound remote communications component when you install the satellite.

2. For late breaking information on this subject, refer to the following Web site:

     www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/library/satellite
   

General Restrictions

Job Scheduling is not available.

Function that requires information from the file system on the satellite is not available. For example, pull-down lists for drive letters are not available. In most situations, you can enter information for drive, path, and directory data manually.

General Folder and Object Restrictions

The following actions are not available when they appear in the pop-up menu for a folder or for an object:

• Performance monitoring cannot be performed on any object.
• When DB2 Satellite Edition is running on Windows NT, you can select Privileges from a pop-up menu to both view the current user and group privileges and to update them, but the Add User and Add Group push buttons of the Privileges notebook do not work.

Specific Folder and Object Restrictions

On the Add System window, you cannot use the Retrieve and Refresh push buttons to add a satellite to the Control Center.

On the Add Instance and the Add Database windows, you cannot use the Refresh push button to add a satellite to the Control Center.

You cannot perform the following actions from the pop-up menu for a named instance:

• Start
• Stop
• Import a server profile
• Setup communications
• Multisite Update
• Applications.

From a database folder, you cannot use the Create Database SmartGuide to create a database that uses Database Managed Storage (DMS) objects.

You cannot perform the following actions from the pop-up menu for a named database:

• Configure using SmartGuide
• Backup Database using SmartGuide
• Generate DDL.

You cannot perform Generate DDL from the pop-up menu for a named table.

You cannot perform Create Index using SmartGuide from the pop-up menu for an index folder.

You cannot open the Connections folder for a database.

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