Connecting NagiosXI to Grafana

We have implemented Grafana along with our Nagios plugin AAG, for quite some time. However, this was done using pnp4Nagios to capture the performance data from our checks and push them through to a PNP […]

EM4i gets a new feature

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]