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Overview of Process: The "IBM Insight for Databases" utility program, and its subsequent reporting process, is intended as a convenient, high-level, relational database system and performance statistics collector for in-production relational database environments. IBM Insight for Databases is a 64-bit Windows .NET 4.0 application that will capture performance statistics provided by in-production databases. Captured statistics are written to the hard drive of the Windows PC dedicated to the collection process. When the collection process is complete, the statistical data is sent to IBM Techline for report generation. The report will be sent to you detailing how your production databases were utilized. The report includes system-wide: active users, workload, wait time, database CPU consumption as a percentage of capacity, logical I/O, physical I/O, and network I/O by time of day. Also included is host CPU utilization and paging activity by time of day. System and instance information is provided along with system global area (SGA) size and cache statistics. Multiple database instances can be collected from simultaneously. The collection process is designed to have minimal impact on your production database environment. Note: Dates and times displayed in the Insight report will be based on the PC clock where the Insight Collector is run not on the clocks of the database servers.

For questions and/or defects, please send an email to: eSizings@us.ibm.com

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Usage Requirements:

A Dedicated Windows PC used for Data Collection:

Hardware (minimum) Intel EM64T Core 2, i5, or i7 processor above 2 GHz. 2 GB of physical memory. 4 GB of free disk space. Server network connection. The PC must be powered on during the entire data collection process.

Software 64-bit (x64) Windows Server, XP, Vista, or 7. Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Service Pack 2. (Installed automatically during installation) (Installed automatically during installation) Microsoft .NET Framework 4. Windows Power Management (hibernation/stand-by/sleep) must be disabled during the collection period.

Oracle Database:

Insight for Databases supports Oracle database releases 10g and 11g. The init.ora parameter timed_statistics set to TRUE. The init.ora parameter "timed_os_statistics" set to 60. The init.ora parameter parallel_max_servers set greater than zero.

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Oracle User ID:

An Oracle user ID with access to the following views:
DBA_TEMP_FILES GV$LIBRARYCACHE GV$ROWCACHE GV$SGAINFO GV$SYSTEM_EVENT V$DATAFILE V$INSTANCE V$STATNAME V$SYS_TIME_MODEL DBA_FREE_SPACE GV$OSSTAT GV$SESSION GV$SYSSTAT GV$SYS_TIME_MODEL GV$SYSTEM_WAIT_CLASS V$OPTION V$NLS_PARAMETERS V$SYSTEM_EVENT

DBA_DATA_FILES GV$INSTANCE GV$PARAMETER GV$SGA GV$WAITSTAT V$DATABASE V$FILESTAT V$OSSTAT V$VERSION V$SYSTEM_WAIT_CLASS

Installation Instructions:
1. On the dedicated Windows PC, copy the installation executable SetupInsightDB_x64.exe to a temporary directory. 2. From Windows Explorer, double click on SetupInsightDB_x64.exe to begin installation. Follow the installation process and reboot if necessary. Insight for Databases is designed to be uninstalled later.

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Insight for Databases - Collector Usage Instructions:

Home Page
STEPS

1. From the Windows Start menu, select Programs -> IBM -> Insight for Databases -> InsightDB Collector. 2. Press the Next button.

Note: The Reset Database button is used to clear all statistical data from the Collectors own Microsoft SQL Server CE database.

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Contacts Page
STEPS

1. Enter your name, email address, and company name. 2. Enter the name and email address of your IBM or Business Partner contact. 3. Press the "Next" button.

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Selection Page
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1. Manually add Oracle databases to the list. Enter the authorized Oracle User ID and password. Enter the host name of the database server, the port number of the Oracle Listener, and the Service Name of the database. Press the "Add" button. 2. Select by checkbox the Oracle databases you want to include in the data collection. 3. Press the Next button.

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Collection Page
Start Collection

1. You will see text boxes representing the target databases included in the data collection. 2. Press the "Start Collection" button to begin the data collection process. 3. During the collection, the Collector will initialize and scan target databases on 5 minute boundaries (:05, :10, :15, ).

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Collection Page - Continued

The above screen print shows green database icons representing active data collection processes for a 5 minute interval.

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Collection Page - Continued

When data collection for a 5 minute interval is complete, the database icons are grey representing idle data collection processes waiting for the next 5 minute interval.

Stop Collection

1. Press the "Stop Collection" button to end the data collection process. 2. Press the "Next" button.

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Submission Page
Steps

1. The Insight for Databases data file (Collector.sdf) resides in the installation directory. C:\Program Files\IBM\Insight for Databases\ 2. If the Collector.sdf file is greater than 5 MB in size, please send an email to IBM Techline (eSizings@us.ibm.com) requesting FTP server access. In the subject line of the email, enter your company name followed by "INSIGHT DB DATA FTP Help Required". In the body of the email, enter your name and contact information. FTP instructions will be sent in a reply to your email. 3. If the Collector.sdf file is less than 5 MB in size, please email the Collector.sdf file to IBM Techline for report generation (eSizings@us.ibm.com). In the subject line of the email, enter the company name followed by "INSIGHT DB DATA". In the body of the email, enter your name and contact information. The report will be sent in a reply to your email. 4. Press the "Exit" button to exit the Collector.

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Release Notes
Version 1.0.0.0 08/23/2010 Initial release supporting Oracle databases 10g and 11g.

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