infx simplifies the administration of Informix by breaking down the basic administrative functions into shared and reusable services.

It reduces the complexity of the underlying Informix utilities by providing a preset environment for them to run in. You concentrate on the instance management, and infx will do the environment management.

set & forget

The initial set up process is quite simple, and by going through these infx services, you gain a central point for administration and control.

You decide at configuration time how you want infx to execute the various services in your environments, These settings can be host wide, or just for one instance, but from that point on you always execute the service instead of using the underlying utilities directly.

This way, you maintain control over how the services operate. If you have to make a change, you won't also have to change entries in cron, other third party tools or anywhere else.

infx takes care of the environment management, and you concentrate on the instance management.

service rules

Each infx service provides the following functionality:

• Determine its context and environment only from the arguments passed to it 
• Not rely on any application settings or environment settings 
• Allow variable configuration of its environment 
• Keep a record of its execution 
• Be able to be tracked 
• Be able to be cancelled 
• Fork into background, if it may take some time 
• Continue, even if the client terminates 

Find out how you access these infx services from the command line or dashboards.