John:
Informix HQ does not require an Informix instance running on the host that you are running the HQ web service, no.
However, note that it is preferable, if you will have HQ saving history, to have a separate repository server instance for it to use other than the production servers that it will be monitoring! Otherwise, like OAT, its data storage operations will be impacting production server performance which is less than desirable. You can just configure a free Innovator-C Edition instance for the repository and configure a history purge policy that keeps the total storage under the IE storage limits. So, why not put that local to the HQ instance?
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Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant
ASK Database Management Corp.
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Original Message:
Sent: Mon February 08, 2021 05:57 AM
From: John Smith
Subject: InformixHQ on Windows questions
Hi
as i know, HQ comes also with 12.10.FC13 or FC14, just in case :)
i prefer to install it on Linux instead of Windows
for this question 'Do I need to leave IDS on that server or can I remove it and InformixHQ will still run?' i think you can let IDS without running any instance of course.
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John Smith
Original Message:
Sent: Thu February 04, 2021 10:10 AM
From: John David Adamski
Subject: InformixHQ on Windows questions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) PATCHLEVEL = 4
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 12.10.FC7
Our ERP which uses Informix just released an upgrade to Informix 12.10.FC13 so would be putting an agent on that server once upgraded.
We currently have OAT on a windows server that up for an OS refresh. And I was looking at moving to InformixHQ after the OS upgrade. But have a question or two, since I couldn't find any information on installing InformixHQ on a Windows machine. I have some time now to get InformixHQ setup and thought would try.
As I understand it InformixHQ come with IDS 14.10.x and if you are not using that version you can download the developers additions and use that to install informixHQ. Ok done that. Have a copy of the windows developer edition. Now the uncertainty comes in.
Next I understand you need to install the Informix database software and it will install the InformixHQ jar file for later installation of that. Now the cloudy part. After I installed IDS and ran the jar file to install InformixHQ. Do I need to leave IDS on that server or can I remove it and InformixHQ will still run?
Has anyone installed InformixHQ on a windows server and have any tips or gotchas? Or should I just scrap the windows server and go with a open Linux of some flavor?
John David Adamski
Sr. Sysadmin/DBA
Graceland University
1 University Place, Lamoni, IA 50140
adamski@graceland.edu
641-784-5267
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