Before a Monitor Client Library application can run, it must have access to an interfaces file that contains entries for Adaptive Server Enterprise Monitor. The interfaces file can exist on a local or remote machine, so long as the Monitor Client Library application has access to the file system containing the interfaces file.
If an interfaces file does not exist on a machine where a Monitor Client Library application will run and an interfaces file is not accessible remotely, you must create one.
The interfaces file accessed by a Monitor Client Library application must contain entries for the following servers:
The Adaptive Server installations being monitored
The Monitor Server(s) that Monitor Viewer is using
Optionally, the Monitor Historical Server if one is being used
The entries that you add to the interfaces file accessed by the Monitor Client Library application must match the entries that already exist in the interfaces file for the servers, on the server machine. Those entries define the server names, their host machine names, and their port numbers. You must use the same values on the client machine. See the person who installed Monitor Server and Monitor Historical Server to obtain the entries for the servers.
The general format for additions to a client interfaces file is:
sql_server_name query entry master entry monitor_server_name query entry master entry historical_server_name query entry master entry
Use the dsedit utility or a text editor to add entries to the interfaces file.
If you use a text editor to update the interfaces file, entries must comply with the following rules:
The entry cannot contain blank lines.
The server_name line must start in the first column of the interfaces file.
The entries for query and master must have one tab preceding them. You must indent the query and master lines using the Tab key; do not use the space bar to indent these two lines.
For information about editing interfaces files, specifics about the interfaces file format, and details about parameters within an interfaces file entry, see Configuring Adaptive Server Enterprise for your platform.
