We have been aware of a limitation with the IBM provided monitors which can cause a number of issues when set up in a specific manner that can result in a noticeable increase in CPU […]
Author: Chris Hird
Take Action with AAG.
Released in the latest update, AAG is now capable of working with Ansible to take action on problems found within your IBM i environment. I wanted to jump on here and quickly outline a use […]
Nagios Monitoring
There has been a lot going on with the Nagios monitoring solution over the past few months so I thought it was time to update everyone. IBM stops support. IBM has sunset support for their […]
FT4i gets more enhancements
A recent update adds the ability to manage the TCP/IP *FTP server from the FT4i web interface as well as adding control over the SSHD logging. There are times when a restart of the TCP/IP […]
Power Systems Firmware check
We have just added a couple of new checks to the AAG product that will allow system administrators to quickly see when IBM releases new firmware updates / upgrades. There are 2 types of firmware […]
NG4i Installation just got easier
When our customers are installing the NG4i LPP on the target system as part of the AAG solution it requires that the save files required for the installation are downloaded to the system to allow […]
RPi test rack for AAG test and build.
We are using the Raspberry Pi for monitoring our internal infrastructure and building out various images that can be used by customers to set up and monitor their own infrastructure. This means we need to […]
New FTP Security tool FT4i
Security is something we should all look at closely, if you are not then you should be. The threat environment is increasing and we are seeing a lot more vulnerabilities identified for the IBM i […]
AAG and System Updates, Making it Easy!
One of the biggest problems we had when running our IBM i systems was knowing what PTFs we needed and when new PTFs are available. As a development shop we regularly come across issues that […]
Raspberry Pi Monitoring for IBM i
Raspberry Pi single board computer We mentioned previously about a project we undertook to add IBM i monitoring to Nagios that resulted in the use of a Raspberry Pi and the NEMS (Nagios Enterprise Monitoring […]