AAG Nagios Monitoring for IBM i V2.0 – Product Announcement

Press Release: Immediate Release – September 2023 Toronto, Ontario – Shield Advanced Solutions Ltd is excited to announce the release Version 2.0 of their Nagios Monitoring plugin for IBM i – AAG!   Choose AAG […]

Fix up the Nagios XI Wizard from IBM

If you are running Nagios XI and have tried to install the IBM i provided wizards only to find it complains about them not being a valid wizard and will not install, there is a […]

Help needed

I have been developing the HMC checks for a Nagios Plugin which will be released soon. One of the issues I have been struggling with is a lack of good documentation for the REST API’s […]

Shield’s Solutions Support the Whole Community at Cooperative Elevator Co.

Cooperative Elevator Co. is a Michigan-based cooperative that provides agricultural products and services to farmers and other businesses. The company was founded in 1915 and has since expanded to serve customers throughout Michigan. Cooperative Elevator […]

AS/400 Shield In From The Start!

As IBM i – AS/400 approaches it’s 35-year celebration the Shield team have nurtured the story from the start. 1994 London England, Midrange EXPO. Chris Hird presenting: Disaster Recovery versus High Availability – Common Europe. […]

Product Announcement : AAG – Nagios Monitoring for IBM i

Press Release : Issued May 2023 (Toronto) In September 2022 Shield Advanced Solutions celebrated the significant milestone, 25 years of providing Availability for the IBM i (and predecessors). At that time, a new product roll-out […]

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 […]

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 […]

Problem with SNDPTFORD on hosted LPAR’s

We are running and IBM i hosting IBM i LPAR’s environment that we use for all of our development. The setup works perfectly for our purposes and even though we have since created a VIOS […]

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 […]