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 […]
Category: Application Modernization
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We thought is was OK but decided to make it better
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 […]
PTF Groups automatic download latest level.
We mentioned in a recent post that we had built an automated process to find any PTF’s associated with a security bulletin issued for the IBM i/OS that were missing from your system and download […]
JOBSCDE check in AAG
We have been busy adding all of our internal systems to the AAG monitoring solution when we noticed that the job we run through the job scheduler for taking the backups had not run for […]
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 […]