Server Studio™ and Sentinel™ together provide powerful multi-platform suite of integrated, intuitive tools that help seasoned database professionals and novices alike improve productivity and ensure that critical IBM Informix® databases remain up and perform at peak levels, manage change and assure availability of vital business information.
Server Studio™ provides a comprehensive collection of modern, proven, easy-to-use tools to help DBAs and developers perform efficiently common database tasks such as:
- Database SQL Application Development and Debugging
- Schema Management
- Configuration Auditing and Change Management
- Performance Tuning
- Data Storage Management and Reorganization
- Database Security Administration

Sentinel™ automates comprehensive proactive management of IBM Informix® DBMS environments by providing:
- 24 × 7 operational monitoring of IBM Informix® DBMS servers
- 24 × 7 operational monitoring of the IDS’ host platform
- Continuous time-series measurement data of servers’ performance
- Execution of regularly scheduled maintenance tasks
- Highly flexible multi-level performance degradation alerts
- Autonomic response management to server events in real time

AGS Server Studio
The premier multi-platform suite of highly intuitive, integrated system management tools that provide database professionals with extensive functionality to:
- Consolidate, and manage with ease your entire IBM Informix database servers’ infrastructure at a central point of control.
- Improve efficiency of database development, debugging and testing.
- Preserve database investment through automating database configuration auditing and change management.
- Proactively diagnose performance and availability problems with extensive analytic tools.
- Obtain maximum leverage from existing data storage investments.
- Resolve performance problems with comprehensive SQL tuning facilities.
- Effectively manage database configuration, security and regulatory compliance.

AGS Sentinel
Performance, Availability and Regulatory Compliance Management of Informix DBMS
- Automate real-time 24×7 monitoring of vital Informix DBMS operational parameters.
- Capture continuous time-series measurement data of the server’s performance in an integrated SQL-compliant repository.
- Retrieve dynamically SQL statements running on the server with robust SQL Capture facilitates.
- Exploit extensive assortment of analytical tools to help diagnose and quickly respond to performance degradation problems.
- Use highly flexible multi-level alerts to flag availability degradation problems.
- Execute regular database systems maintenance tasks with a flexible Job Scheduler.
- Maximize availability of vital databases with fully autonomic responses to critical server events.
- Conduct performance stress testing under real-life server loads.
