Visual Manager (IVM) provides a global view into the Ingres installation. It serves as a system console from which you can manage Ingres components and access other utilities. This utility captures events that are occurring in the system and allows them to be filtered for emphasis, based on your preferences.

IVM allows you to monitor (and start and stop) the different servers in the installation (DBMS, Name, Communications, JDBC, Data Access, Bridge, Star, and Recovery) as well as Remote Command, the Logging and Locking systems, and the Primary Transaction Log and Archiver process. It shows events occurring in the system both at the installation level and the level of each server. Using IVM, you can also edit the Ingres system and user environment variable settings.