Press Release: issued January 2026 Toronto, Ontario – Shield Advanced Solutions Ltd is excited to announce the release of AAG 3.0, delivering 2–3x faster response times and dramatically reducing overhead on Nagios Servers. This release […]
Category: Nagios
Enhancing AAG with Passive Check Support: Smarter, Lighter, Cooperative Monitoring for IBM i and Nagios
IBM i systems don’t natively support passive checks because NRDP requires ASCII‑formatted Web API requests, while IBM i uses EBCDIC internally. That mismatch has historically prevented IBM i from participating fully in Nagios’ passive check […]
Unlocking Security Insights with IBM i Audit Journal Monitoring
The IBM i Audit Journal is a treasure trove of security data. It records thousands of events that reveal what’s happening on your system — from failed logins to changes in user authorities. The challenge […]
Shield Advanced Solutions Partners with Nagios Enterprises
We’re excited to announce our official partnership with Nagios Enterprises, the global leader in IT infrastructure monitoring! This collaboration strengthens Shield Advanced Solutions Ltd.’s ability to deliver comprehensive, scalable, and reliable monitoring solutions — all […]
Shield Advanced Solutions Announces AAG Version 3.0
We are pleased to announce that AAG Version 3.0 is now available to customers. This release delivers significant performance improvements, reducing overhead on the Nagios Server and helping organizations running tens of thousands of checks […]
Strengthening IBM i Security with Automated Authority Monitoring
Insider threats remain one of the most overlooked risks in enterprise security. According to the 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 35% of breaches originate from within organizations. On IBM i systems, this risk is […]
AAG Version 3 Announcement!
We’re excited to share that Version 3 of At‑A‑Glance (AAG) Monitoring is now in final testing and will be available for customers soon! This latest release delivers faster, more efficient monitoring for your IBM i […]
Shield is now a Registered Nagios Partner:
We are excited to announce our partnership with Nagios, bringing the power of the Nagios XI platform to our At‑A‑Glance (AAG) Monitoring solution. This collaboration delivers seamless integration for the IBM i checks we provide, […]
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 […]
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 […]