It only seems like a few days ago that we made the announcement about the HMC checks being shipped in the latest updates for AAG, but here we are announcing a NEW update for the […]
Category: C Programming System i5
Programming discussion ‘C’ on System i5
Security Bulletin PTF’s – Automated download
As part of our AAG product we have been looking at how we can make the security bulletin checks easy so that users can get their systems status with respect to security exposures announced by […]
Getting the source IP address using inet_ntop()
We had a problem with a client system where some HA4i jobs would end abnormally due to a request to the TCP/IP port being incorrectly formed. We need to be able to find out what […]
Monitoring your IBM i Group PTFs
I am not sure about you, but keeping my IBM i LPAR’s updated to the latest PTF level has always been a challenge! This means I tend to let things fester for some time before […]
Yet more from AAG
The initial release of AAG has only just made the rounds and yet we already have some new features that we are adding. With the first couple of installs underway we are finding new features […]
Nagios is monitoring the IBM i.
In a recent Post we mentioned that we were working away on a new Nagios build that would form the base for our Nagios monitoring for the IBM i, well we are now very close […]
EM4i – Message Monitoring for IBM i -New Product Announcement
Press Release Issued: July 2021 Toronto, Ontario – Shield Advanced Solutions Ltd, leading providers of High Availability Software for IBM i today announced their new solution EM4i. EM4i is an Enterprise Monitoring Solution for the […]
Update to the messsage monitoring Application
In a previous post we mention that we were working on a new message monitoring tool that could monitor for messages on message queues and within joblogs, it could also send a request to the […]
Message Monitoring via the web
There are a number of message monitoring products out there for the IBM i which have been around for a long time. While were were looking at the remote monitoring possibilities using the Nagios/NEMS for […]
SMS from IBM i for Monitoring
We have been looking at the Nagios monitoring solution for the last few weeks and wanted to add some way of sending SMS alerts out to phones for critical events that require immediate notification. Nagios […]