Press Release : Shield Takes IBM i Monitoring Solution AAG to New Heights with Ansible

Press Release. Immediate Release, 5 March 2025, Toronto, Ontario. Shield Advanced Solutions Ltd announces major improvements taking their AAG – Nagios Monitoring plugin for IBM i, to new heights using Ansible. “We’re thrilled to share […]

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 […]

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 release AAG/NG4i V2R1

There have been so many updates for AAG/NG4i since it was first released back in May 2023 and we are now adding a new release for the product with even more updates and new features. […]

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 […]

Nagios XI wizard for IBM Power HMC

We now have the Nagios XI wizards built for both the IBM i plugin and a new HMC plugin which is due to be released today. These wizards greatly reduce the effort required to install […]

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 […]