Common administering or administration tasks performed by
datastage admin
1.
Managing the assets and asset migration (example
exporting security assets example users and user groups)
a.
ISTOOL à
istool is a command line interface. This is present in both client and
engine tiers. The location if CLI is /opt/IBM/InformationServer/Clients/istools/cli
Istool is used for managing assets, i.e. build package, send or deploy
package, import/export assets etc
Example:
Istool export -security '-securityUser -userident
"*" -includeRoles'
-domain host:port
-username user
-password password
-archive ExportISFSecurityRoles.isx
2.
Enable or disable product features or set/unset
the product configuration properties
a.
IISADMIN à
Use iisadmin can be used to activate or deactivate an edition or feature
pack. More details about iisadmin could found in below link
for example, if we want to see what features are active then we could use
below command
./iisAdmin.sh -display
-key com.ibm.iis.datastage.license.*
Results..
com.ibm.iis.datastage.license.option.parallel=1com.ibm.iis.datastage.license.option.qualitystage=0 above results indicate
that qualitystage is not enabled.
3.
Administering services tier i.e. starting or
stopping services
a.
Starting services
i. First
start the application server
1.
Go to /opt/IBM/InformationServer/ASBServer/bin
2.
Run “./MetadataServer.sh start” or “./MetadataServer.sh
run”
3.
run echos the output (i.e. runs in forground)
and start runs in background
ii. Then
start engine service
1.
Go to /opt/IBM/InformationServer/Server/DSEngine
2.
./bin/uv -admin -start
iii. Then
start ASB Agent
1.
Go to /opt/IBM/InformationServer/ASBNode/bin
2.
./NodeAgents.sh start
b.
Shutting down or stopping services
i. First
stop the datastage engine services (Metadata Server services, DSRPC Server etc)
1.
Go to /opt/IBM/InformationServer/Server/DSEngine
2.
./bin/uv -admin –stop
ii. Then
stop agents
1.
Go to /opt/IBM/InformationServer/ASBNode/bin
2.
./NodeAgents.sh stop
iii. Then
stop application server
1.
Go to /opt/IBM/InformationServer/ASBServer/bin
2.
./MetadataServer.sh stop
4.
AppServerAdmin Command
a.
Run this command whenever admin user account
password is changed so that new password is reflected across all the
Information Server suite components configuration
5.
SessionAdmin command
a.
Use this to manage and monitor the active
sessions
6.
DirectoryAdmin tool
a.
Use this to access metadata repository and user registry,
and complete variety of actions on user registry including adding new user,
changing password, deleting user/group, changing the user role etc..
7.
DirectoryCommand tool
a.
Similar to directoryadmin but not same. This can
be used to add/delete users/groups etc
8.
Encrypt
a.
Use this command to encrypt the user credentials
9.
Orchadmin
a.
Use this command to research on dataset.
ORCHADMIN CHECK -- Check configuration file
ORCHADMIN CHECK -- Check configuration file
COPY,
DELETE, DESCRIBE and TRUNCATE datasets
DUMP
dataset data to readable format files
10.
What is ASB agent
a.
This is the back group process that conveys the
requests from client tier to service tier.
11.
What is dsrpcd (DSRPC Service)
a.
This service allows client tier to connect to
server engine.
12.
Another very important command is “dsjob”,
though administrator do not normally use this command, its very important to
know and understand how dsjob works.
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