The Open Admin Tool (OAT) is a browser based administration tool. The tool has been developed by IBM using PHP and is published as open source software. It allows the administration and monitoring of local and remote IDS instances from a single administration console.

Here is a screenshot of OAT:

The OAT software can be downloaded from the following URL. You need an IBM ID in order to access the download site but the registration is free of charge:

You can download the OAT software from here

XAMPP is a pre-configured software bundle that includes the Apache webserver as well as PHP and Perl. The XAMPP package is very popular on Windows based platforms but here exists also a package for Linux.

You will find detailed instructions about how to configure XAMPP and OAT on Linux in this excellent article:

OpenAdmin Tool XAMPP Installation on Linux

On Linux you might prefer a native Apache installation together with PHP without a pre-configured XAMPP package. If you prefer the non-XAMPP way, the following notes might help you. The installation notes assume that the following components have already been installed:

• Informix Client-SDK
• Suse Linux Packages via yast2
  • php5
  • php5-devel
  • php5-pdo
  • php5-soap
  • apache2
  • apache2-mod_php5

• tar xvf PDO_INFORMIX 1-1.0.tar

• cd PDO_INFORMIX-1.1.0

• phpize

• ./configure

  • Possible Pitfall

    • checking for PDO includes... configure: error: Cannot find php_pdo_driver.h.

    • ln -s /usr/include/php5 /usr/include/php

• make

• make install

• ls -l /usr/lib64/php5/extensions

• Enable PHP in php.ini file

  • vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

    • extension=pdo.so

    • extension=pdo_informix.so

    • memory_limit = 256M

• mkdir /srv/www/htdocs/oat

• cd /srv/www/htdocs/oat

• tar xvf oatidsV2.11_092707.tar

• chmod ugo+w -R install conf

• set the appropriate INFORMIX environment, Example:

  • . /home/informix/instances/penguin/env.sh

• Restart the apache webserver

  • /etc/rc.d/apache2 restart

• Open URL: http://localhost/oat/instal
  • Installation is pretty much self-explanatory

• Open URL: http://localhost/oat/admin
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