Understanding the Administration Server

The DB2^® Administration Server (DAS) responds to requests from the DB2 Administration Tools and the Configuration Assistant (CA). The DB2 Administration Tools, for example, allow you to start, stop, and set database manager configuration parameters for servers. The Administration Server is used by the CA to help users catalog databases on a client. The DAS is available on all supported Linux™, Windows^®, and UNIX^® operating systems as well as the zSeries^® (OS/390^® and z/OS^® only) operating systems.

An Administration Server must reside on each server that you want to administer and detect. The Administration Server is automatically created and started for you. The setup program creates the Administration Server on the instance-owning machine and automatically starts it at boot time. By default the DAS instance is DB2AS, which is the default user ID that is created using the DB2 Setup wizard.

Parent topic: DB2 Connect

Related concepts
DB2 Administration Server