User Guide

SAP AG November 2002
Server/Client for the Database Manager
Server Client
DBM Server [Page 58] DBMGUI [Page 134]
DBMCLI [Page
133]
Web DBM [Page 154]
A script interface is available.
See also:
Architecture of the Database Manager [Page
54]
Architecture of the SAP DB Web Tools [Page 57]
Database Manager GUI
The Database Manager [Page 133] has a user-friendly graphical user interface, the Database
Manager GUI (DBMGUI). If you want to use the Database Manager to monitor several SAP
DB database instances, which may be on different computers, you should use the Database
Manager GUI.
The Database Manager GUI can only be used on Windows operating systems. If you want to
use the functionality of the Database Manager on other operating system platforms, you must
use the Database Manager CLI [Page 133] or Web DBM [Page 154].
Call
You have the following options for calling the Database Manager GUI:
• Choose Start → Programs → SAP DB → Database Manager.
• You can start the Database Manager GUI from the command line. In this case, you can
transfer options [Page
60] to the Database Manager program.
See also: Database Manager GUI: SAP DB 7.4 [See SAP DB Library]
Options (DBMGUI)
When you call the Database Manager GUI [Page 134] at command line level, you can specify
options (Database Manager GUI: SAP DB 7.4 → Starting the DBMGUI [See SAP DB
Library]). If you do not enter any options, you can make the entries needed for logging on to
the database instance on the logon screen.
The following user specifications as options [Page
31] should be transferred: the
DBM operator [Page
134] and the name of the database instance [Page 132]
dbmgui -u dbmmann,secret -d MK1
The Database Manager is called and a database session is created for the DBM
operator dbmmann, password secret with the registered database instance MK1.
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