by Vikram Khatri | Jan 17, 2013
There are two types of DBAs Ones who are control freak – This article is not meant for you as you have already taken pains to grant privilges to an application user without granting DBADM. You have a very good mechanism to control how applications connect and...
by Vikram Khatri | Jan 1, 2013
This must be read in conjunction with this post. The fast I/O fencing needs to be enabled in DB2 pureScale. This is a feature of GPFS in conjunction with your storage firmware or its driver. In a nutshell, the following procedure must be followed: The file...
by Vikram Khatri | Dec 25, 2012
This is how I did a setup of two wireless routers with same SSID. Host Router: Linksys WRT54GS (I am replacing that with a Linksys E4200) connect WAN port to the modem. Client Router: Linksys E1000 connected through an ethernet cable with the main router. Do not...
by Vikram Khatri | Dec 21, 2012
These instructions worked for me to setup 2 wireless routers having same SSID with a single Internet connection. Note: Both routers connect to each other wirelessly so this setup is useful when it is not possible to connect both routers through a wire. My host...
by Vikram Khatri | Dec 17, 2012
On my new Thinkpad W530 with 32 GB RAM and dual 500GB SSD, I am running multiple virtual machines using VMware 9 workstation. So far, I have tested 6 VMs running with a resonable performance. My aim is to run DB2 pureScale using minimum 4 VMs and 2 VMs for the...
by Vikram Khatri | Dec 16, 2012
The first thing I noticed in Windows 8 is the missing "Manage Wireless Network". I tried taking help from google but I found same issues raised by other people. I could not connect to my work wireless that uses Cisco LEAP and here are the steps that I...
by Vikram Khatri | Oct 8, 2012
The Work Load Management (WLM) feature of DB2 is mostly viewed as one of the best but least understood feature. The WLM has two main themes. 1. Use system defined resources such as CPU or I/O usage to do a task faster or slower 2. Use DB2 defined control such as...
by Vikram Khatri | Sep 30, 2012
After you install Optim Performance Manager 5.1.1.1, start the web console and try to add a database for monitoring. After establishing the connection, you may notice an opmConfigurationAdapter.checkLicense error and you may wonder that you specified the license...
by Vikram Khatri | Jul 6, 2012
RSCT is pretty smart to take care of automation but when unsual things happen and may be that logic is not yet there, you may have to intervene as a DBA and that is why you have a niche for yourself. Take this case: The output from lssam shows that two members of the...
by Vikram Khatri | Jul 6, 2012
DB2 pureScale has one of the best features known as WLB, ACR and CA and a brief introduction is here. WLB (Work Load Balancing) – at the unit of work level is the capability unmatched in the industry and built at the driver level where it can distribute the work...
by Vikram Khatri | Jul 5, 2012
The status of the db2 pureScale instance is best determined by the db2instance -list and lssam commands. For example: db2psc@node02:~> db2instance -list ID TYPE STATE HOME_HOST CURRENT_HOST ALERT — —- —– ———...
by Vikram Khatri | Jun 30, 2012
============================================================== UPDATE for DB2 10.5 Everything holds good for DB2 10.5 except that you need to set the following db2 registry variables after DB2 pureScale instance in created. db2set DB2_SD_SOCKETS_RESTRICTIONS=false...
by Vikram Khatri | Jun 29, 2012
If you have set up DB2 10.1 Active / Passive or HADR with TSA, the db2haicu command sets up the cluster manager DBM CFG to TSA and there is no way you can unset that by using db2 update dbm cfg command as it can only be done by the application and that is in our case...
by Vikram Khatri | Jun 29, 2012
In zLinux environment, the DB2 High Availability solution using Active / Passive (with shared database) is very easy to implement as per the previous article. The db2haicu command uses network IP address as the tie-breaker but the better reliable approach is to use a...
by Vikram Khatri | Jun 29, 2012
The old timers DBA and System Administrators used some form of clustering to have 2 machines (One is Active and another is passive) with a shared database to provide high availability. This was traditinally done by either using IBM HACMP or Veritas Cluster Software...
by Vikram Khatri | Jun 26, 2012
DB2 10.1 pureScale provides db2cluster command to do things that are related to the RSCT. For example: You can use db2cluster -cm -list -hostfailuredetectiontime to find out the host failure detection time. node02:~ # db2cluster -cm -list -hostfailuredetectiontime The...
by Vikram Khatri | Jun 25, 2012
In DB2 pureScale, we use a RSCT peer domain and a GPFS domain. These domains have couple of machines networked together. In democracy, we choose someone to be a leader / master / manager to create an order. The same type of democracy exists in RSCT and GPFS where the...
by Vikram Khatri | Jun 25, 2012
The GPFS logs are in /var/adm/ras and RSCT logs are in /var/ct/<db2domainname>log/mc directory. If you are lazy like me, create an alias in your profile to change the directory alias rlog='cd /var/ct/db2domain*/log/mc' The directory structure looks like:...
by Vikram Khatri | Jun 25, 2012
Useful commands for day to day work to manage DB2 pureScale with RSCT and GPFS GPFS: Did you wonder why GPFS commands start with mm? The GPFS started as a IBM research project the the early 90s to build a multi-media (music and video) networked file system for some...
by Vikram Khatri | Jun 19, 2012
Before Install DB2 10.1 pureScale feature uses RSCT, GPFS and Tivoli SA MP which is an application of RSCT. A DB2 DBA can take care of DB2 but there are additional things one must take care particularly on RSCT. In using DB2 pureScale, one is going from a stand alone...
