[Info-ingres] DataConnect, Director and Management Server

[Steve]

Hi folks

I believe Actian Director uses something called Management Server. Further, I believe Director (and thus Management Server) is a prerequisite for DataConnect/IngresConnect.

The Ingres documentation indicates the Management Server can be started/stopped with the ingstart/ingstop -mgmtsvr option, however I don't see a way to explicitly show it is running or not (ignoring ps -ef). 

For example, ingstatus doesn't show anything, even though it does show things that aren't running, like the Bridge Server. Issuing ingstop -mgmtsvr when Management Server is not already running, doesn't report too much and there is no "show mgmtsvr" iinamu command, for example.

Is it simply a case that Ingres can't report on something that is not installed?

Essentially I want to confirm a user could not run Director and/or DataConnect/IngresConnect without the DBA's knowledge, because Management Server would need to be running on the server?

Thanks
Steve